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What is the importance of variety in your exercise program?
By creating variation and changing exercises in your routine, you can create a new stimulus, which creates more progress over time. And if you rotate exercises or activity every so often, your injury risk will decrease.
What is variation in principles of training?
The Variation Principle suggests that minor changes in training regimens yield more consistent gains in sport performance. Training programs for virtually every sport include variations in intensity, duration, volume, and other important aspects of practice.
What is variety when planning a training program?
The principle of variety is ensuring training sessions use multiple training types and methods, as well as exercises within these methods. Variety is needed in training, not only to prevent boredom, but also to ensure complete and full development of fitness.
What factors are important when selecting exercise variations?
The 5 key factors to consider in an exercise program
- Range of movement.
- Strength.
- Fitness.
- Osteoporosis.
- Weight control.
What is variation in PE?
The principle of variation is one of those immoveable tenants of training. The principle maintains that a constant adaptation and changes in intensity, volume and time of the workout will prevent the stagnation of performance gains or increase performance gains faster than a repetition of the same workout.
How can variety improve strength?
Here are a couple simple things you can do to add variety to your exercises:
- Increase the number of sets or reps.
- Increase the duration of the exercise.
- Decrease the rest between exercises.
- Increase the resistance.
- Change the resistance (body-weight, kettlebell, medicine ball, etc)
- Pause at the top or bottom of exercise.
What factors most when planning a fitness program?
What must one consider when choosing an exercise program?
7 Things to Consider for Choosing the Right Exercise Plan
- What are your goals?
- Does the plan fit into your schedule?
- What do you enjoy?
- What equipment do you need?
- Do you have support?
- How are you fuelling your plan?
- Is it working?
Why do exercise programs must increase in difficulty and duration over time to remain effective?
Exercise programs must increase in difficulty and duration to remain effective because of the principle of overload. As an individual exercises at a higher level, the body adapts to the increased demand and this higher level eventually becomes your body’s new normal.
Which fitness principle means that exercise affects everyone differently?
Trainability: Each person responds differently to the same training stimulus. Don’t expect that the same prescription will get you the same result with each person – you have to monitor and adapt training as you go to suit different clients.