Overload Essay

Training Principles:

Progressive Overload Principle

The principle of overload is that a larger than normal burden is required for training adaptation to occur. The body will adapt to this stimulus. Once the body has adapted, a different or increased stimulus is required to continue the change.

Overload can be achieved by utilising the F.I.T.T acronym:

Frequency: How often you exercise. After exercise in any form, the body completes a process of rebuilding and repairing and by determining the frequency of exercise a balance that provides stress and also allows enough rest time for repairing can be found.

Intensity: The amount of effort that is put into a specific exercise or training. This requires a balance to ensure that the intensity is difficult enough to overload the body but not so gruelling that it results in injuries, overtraining or burnouts.

Time: Time is simply how long each session lasts, which will change based on the intensity and type of session.

Type: The type of exercise that is occurring, it could be based on aerobic capacity or increasing the anaerobic threshold. ...