Introduction
Sports training is designed to improve your fitness level and improve your fundamentals of the given sport you are training for. The objective of training is to develop the energy production systems to meet the demands of the event.
It aims to help someone achieve maximum efficiency and allows the body to gradually build up strength and endurance, improve skill levels and build motivation, ambition and confidence.
Through our activities, our web quest will be providing you with a better understanding of how different sports training is beneficial, and how increased results will be seen overtime with the correct training.
Task
You and your workout partner are both hard working athletes looking to enhance your training. Today you will be reading about sports training and learning the following:
- How different types of sports training and the intensity of the workout can change your routines and the benefits it will bring
- How certain methods of training can improve your systems and develop your physical stamina and endurance
Process
Different Types of Sports Training- http://www.fsps.muni.cz/emuni/data/reader/book-6/02.html
1) Why are basic motor abilities important for almost all sports? (2)
2) Why should you increase intensity every workout/training session? (2)
3) Why does an athletes personality/attitude help with training? How can it make training more difficult? (4)
4) What is the physical component of sports training and what does it focus on? (2)
5) What is the technical component of sports training and what 5 things does it focus on? (2)
6) What are 5 of the main areas of structure of sports performance? (5)
7) What are the 4 categories of the psychological component of an athlete? Give examples of them. (8)
8) What are the optimum and adaptation stimulus’? (2)
9) If you were to train for a certain sport, why is it important that you train specific muscles? (3)
10) Choose a sport of your liking and name the fundamental skills you need for that sport. (5)
Methods of Training- https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zyqd2p3/revision/2 (fill in the blank)
Continuous training develops cardiovascular fitness
- A minimum of 20 minutes ____________ work.
- Target heart rate range between ______% maximum heart rate (maxHR).
- ________, _______, _______, _______ or a combination of these disciplines.
- Disadvantage - some participants find ______ ________ to be boring.
Interval training develops strength, speed and muscular endurance
- Periods of _______ work interspersed with timed rest.
- A wide variety of _______ types can be developed.
- Structured in ____ and ____.
- _________ is measured by % maxHR.
- Disadvantage - maximal nature of _________ can be too ___________ for some participants.
Fartlek (speed play) training develops a range of components and is used by games players
- A __________ form of training.
- Changes in _____, _______ and _______ are used to provide changes in exercise intensity.
- _______ and _________ work can be done in the __________ that suit the performer.
- Disadvantage - some _____ areas have little variety of _______ and _______.
Evaluation
Compare your answers to these and grade yourself and see how well you know your sports training
1) Basic motor abilities are important for most sports because an athlete has to have a basic skill set to improve upon and an athlete must know how to play the sport.
2) An athlete must increase the intensity of a workout/training session so the athlete can intensify the muscle mass of the muscle groups needed for the sport and an increase the workouts to have a higher toleration point.
3) An athletes attitude and personality can help with training because if the athlete has a good attitude towards training and getting better will help motivate them to work harder. If the athlete has a poor attitude/personality towards training can make things more difficult because they may not be motivated to improve their skill and not work hard to improve.
4) The physical component of sports training is to improve systematic development, it focuses on developing the motor abilities of the sport
5) The technical component of sports training is keeping and transferring motor skills, it focuses on 5 skills, fundamental, sports, general vs special, closed vs open, continuous vs discrete vs serial
6) Somatic
Fitness
Technical
Tactical
Psychical
7) Temperament-emotions and mental process
Motivation-activation level
Qualities of the individual-devotion, persistence, dependence, selfishness
Attitude-maturing, rationality, echoing
8) Optimum stimulus and adaptation stimulus means that an athlete applies smaller size of stimulus’ during preparation than the athlete is used to
9) It is important that you train specific muscles for your sport so you are able to develop the muscle so you are stronger and able to go harder during the specific sport, it is also important so you can train your lactic acid system to get rid of it faster as you are going harder in your sport.
10) Opinion based answer
Fill in the Blank Answers
1)sub-maximal 2)60-80 3)Swimming, running, cycling, walking 4)longer sessions 5)intense 6)fitness 7)reps, sets 8)Intensity 9)intervals, challenging 10)continuous 11)speed, incline, terrain 12)Aerobic, anaerobic, quantities 13)urban, incline, terrain
Conclusion
Sports are the products human cultures. They are used to for joy and excitement however for serious athletes are guidelines to enhance their training. Sports training greatly impacts how an athlete will perform in there sport based off the exercise training they are doing to achieve success. An example would be a hockey player trying to increase their speed on the ice. Without utilizing a specific exercise routine that targets muscles in the leg that will increase speed, no results will be seen. However, understanding how certain sports training will assist an athlete in muscle development, will set them on the right path to accomplishing their goals in relation to sport. Sports training is very important when trying to be an elite athlete so with the information you have obtained during the webquest, can change your training ways!