Sports, Exercise and Health Science · A.3 Response

SEA.3.1 — Qualities of training

Sports, Exercise and Health Science · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. SEA.3.1.1

   Training and programme design

   The quality of training design and programme design are essential elements in developing a safe and effective programme for improving health or performance.

2. SEA.3.1.1.1

   The six training principles

   Common training principles direct programme design. These are: specificity, progressive overload (frequency, intensity and duration), recovery (rest principle), variety, reversibility and periodization.

3. SEA.3.1.1.2

   Baseline values and progress

   Measuring baseline values and progress are important components of design.

4. SEA.3.1.1.3

   Macro-, meso- and microcycles

   Macrocycles, mesocycles and microcycles impact athletic performance.

5. SEA.3.1.1.4

   Individual adaptive response

   An athlete’s adaptive responses to training will depend on the intensity and methods (anaerobic and aerobic) of training utilized, and well as inter-individual differences such as genetics (responders versus non-responders).

6. SEA.3.1.1.5

   What a programme must consider

   Training programmes need to consider:

7. SEA.3.1.1.6

   Overreaching and overtraining

   Non-functional overreaching, and overtraining, are possible consequences of poorly designed or poorly maintained programmes.