Objectivity in Training

It is not surprising to know that many referees do not have a specific objective when they go down to the field for training. Yes, perhaps they may say that they are doing speed workout, or speed endurance, aerobic endurance or anaerobic endurance, weight training but how many plan their training schedule for a month or 20 days before the fitness test or doing training for a subsequent match?

Training to improve an athlete's performance obeys the principles of training: specificity, overload, recovery, adaptation and reversibility. Specificity deal with the aim of training, to improve speed, strength, endurance, agility or mobility. Overload deal with increasing the resistance e.g. adding weights to the barbell, increasing the number of repetitions in the interval runs, increasing the number of sets of the exercise (work-out) or increasing the intensity- more work in the same time, i.e. reducing the recovery periods. The increase of work load should be incremental, easy to difficulty, easy to hard, lesser to more. Recovery is necessary to allow the body to adapt or to condition itself to the pressure and change its reaction to the work load. Adaptation occurs during the recovery period after the training session is completed.The body will react to the training loads imposed by increasing its ability to cope with those loads. The improvement of endurance, speed, speed endurance, aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, cardiovascular endurance, strength, muscular endurance or recovery rate. Reversibility states that the improved body performance can be declined with the inconsistency of regular training, reduce of intensity or loads. A simple phenomenon that can be seen is the feeling of a decline in fitness after a lay out due to injury.

If we are training for the fitness test, we should know what level of fitness are we. Can we start at the same level as others who have started their training very much earlier? Plan your schedule of training for a month, 20 days, a week or even for the day. Do not just go down and do a work our with no target or clear objective. You may be doing to little or too much. Wrong training or failing to train properly will either NOT bring to the starting line (due to injury) or the finishing line (due to lack of training intensity).


Adapted from:
http://www.brianmac.co.uk/trnprin.htm