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This unit explores how different training methods are applied to improve health, fitness, and performance across a variety of sports. Students will investigate the characteristics of anaerobic, aerobic, flexibility, strength, and skill-based training, and assess their relevance for recreational participants and elite athletes. They will evaluate the application of the principles of training, such as progressive overload and specificity, to aerobic and strength development. Students will also examine how these principles lead to physiological adaptations, including cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular changes, and how these adaptations translate to improved sporting performance.
Syllabus Points:
Assess the types of training and training methods and their relevance for a variety of sports
Including:
Anaerobic training, including anaerobic interval, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Sprint Interval Training (SIT), plyometric, and resistance training
Aerobic training, including continuous, fartlek, aerobic interval, and circuit training
Flexibility training, including static, dynamic, ballistic, and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
Strength training, including free/fixed weights, body weight exercises and elastics
Skill and tactical development, including drills, modified games and games for specific outcomes
Evaluate the application of the principles of training to both aerobic and strength training
Including:
Progressive overload
Training thresholds
Reversibility
Specificity
Variety
Warm-up and cool-down
Examine the relationship between the principles of training, physiological adaptations and improved performance
Including:
Heart rate
Stroke volume and cardiac output
Oxygen uptake and lung capacity
Haemoglobin level
Muscle hypertrophy
Fast/slow twitch muscle fibres
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