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Training Principles Part 1

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Total cards: 19•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

What are the 10 training principles?

Back (Answer)

Specificity, intensity, duration, overload, frequency, detraining, maintenance, individuality, diminishing returns, variety

#2
Front (Question)

During training, what does specificity refer to?

Back (Answer)

The fact that activities must replicate the energy system usage, work to rest ratio and fitness components called upon during competition

#3
Front (Question)

What does intensity refer to?

Back (Answer)

The level of exertion applied during training

#4
Front (Question)

What is the easiest way to determine intensity?

Back (Answer)

Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), such as the Borg scale

#5
Front (Question)

What can duration refer to?

Back (Answer)

Length of a training program, length of a training session or amount of work performed during training

#6
Front (Question)

What is periodisation?

Back (Answer)

Organising a training program into manageable blocks of time that include tapering and peaking

#7
Front (Question)

What is tapering?

Back (Answer)

The reduction of training volumes

#8
Front (Question)

What does peaking ensure?

Back (Answer)

Prime physiological and psychological states for major events

#9
Front (Question)

What is overload?

Back (Answer)

The placing of the body under new stress after it has adjusted to previous loads in an effort to bring about improvements

#10
Front (Question)

When overload is applied, what is critical to ensure adaptations occur fully and quickly?

Back (Answer)

Appropriate and adequate recovery

#11
Front (Question)

When should overload occur only?

Back (Answer)

When training becomes easier, when only one training parameter is involved and is in the range of 2-10% of an increase

#12
Front (Question)

What happens if overload does not follow the rules?

Back (Answer)

There is a risk of overtraining and injury

#13
Front (Question)

What does frequency refer to?

Back (Answer)

The number of training sessions undertaken in a week

#14
Front (Question)

How many sessions per week are improvements linked to?

Back (Answer)

3 sessions per week

#15
Front (Question)

What is linked to 2 training sessions per week?

Back (Answer)

Maintenance of components, energy systems and adaptations

#16
Front (Question)

What occur as athletes become more experienced?

Back (Answer)

They are able to better schedule recovery sessions and increase the number of sessions per week without overtraining

#17
Front (Question)

When does detraining occur and what happens?

Back (Answer)

When training ceases due to injury, illness or breaks, and a rapid return to pre-training levels occurs

#18
Front (Question)

What is the speed at which adaptations are reversed?

Back (Answer)

Adaptations are reversed a lot quicker than it takes to see them accumulate

#19
Front (Question)

Who does detraining occur quickest to?

Back (Answer)

People with immobilisation injuries