SPORTS TRAINING

Author: P.K. SENTHILKUMAR R. SUBRAMANIAN

Sports training focuses on reaching maximum efficiency in motor abilities connected to a certain sports discipline. Athletic training is practiced by athletic trainers, health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to optimize activity and participation of patients and clients. Athletic training encompasses the prevention, diagnosis, and intervention of emergency, acute and chronic medical conditions involving impairment, functional limitations and disabilities. Training is a complex behaviour, mainly because it is performed in a time frame that ranges from seconds to years. Sports people use numerous terms to describe the characteristics of this temporal dimension of training. Single human movements, which occur in a second or two, are combined and repeated to make a training bout or workout, a period of more-or-less uninterrupted physical activity. Workouts may occupy a few minutes or hours, and may be continuous exercise, a set of reps or repeated movements, or a set of sets. A complete training session usually lasts an hour or two and consists of one or more workouts. Measuring an athlete’s training load through physiological monitoring provides the opportunity for the coach to build up a detailed training history, which should form the basis for any assessment of performance. For instance, using a training diary, it’s possible to infer links between the volume of training and decrements in performance and make assumptions about the possible occurrence of the overtraining/overreaching syndrome. Alternatively, the coach may wish to know what type, intensity, duration and frequency of training stimulus is optimal to develop maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max). Using a past history of training load and physiological test results, it’s possible to determine how much training is required to improve VO2max. Successful monitoring and assessment of training may then lead to improvements in performance.

ISBN: 978-93-84603-08-3

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