PRINCIPLES OF SPORTS TRAINING
Abstract
The principles of sports training are foundational guidelines designed to optimize athletic performance and prevent injuries. Key principles include individualization, ensuring training programs are tailored to an athlete’s specific needs and abilities; specificity, focusing on sport-specific skills and movements; progressive overload, gradually increasing the training stimulus; and recovery, allowing adequate rest for the body to repair and strengthen. Additional principles are variation, to prevent plateaus and reduce injury risk; reversibility, highlighting the loss of fitness when training ceases; adaptation, leveraging the body's response to increased demands; periodization, structuring training into cycles; balance, ensuring overall fitness; and specificity of testing, using sport-specific assessments to measure progress.
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