Training Simulation

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The physiological adaptations that I experienced during my training programme can be defined as short term and long-term effects. The short-term effects are the effects that I experienced immediately after the session and the long-term effects are effects that I experienced after regular training during the programme. The immediate effects the sessions had on my muscles were, there was a temperature increase and increase in blood flow to the muscles as well as an increase in contractions. My muscles also became sore and tired due to constantly being worked and pushed to limits. An increase in contractions meant that the muscles were being worked during the session and because they were being worked the temperature of each working muscle rose. …show more content…
I think this because if I hadn’t become injured and sick and therefore unable to complete some of the sessions the application of progressive overload would have been applied better. Even though I didn’t lose the fitness gained from the first part of the session and the overload I feel that I would have become even fitter if I was able to complete the full programme and the full overload. I feel that frequency of training applied really well to the programme as every period we had a training session an because of this my overall workload and overload was successfully increased during my periods of participation and the frequency element of progressive overload was successfully applied. During my training programme I feel that the intensity element of the progressive overload was successfully applied each week. I was able to elevate my HR into a training zone that meant my intensity was at a high level, ensuring that I would be able to improve the components of fitness that the session worked on specifically. An example of an increase in intensity throughout the training programme is comparing the heart rates from the 12min spin sessions during the beginning, middle and end of the programme. My heart rate from the first session was 180bpm, my heart rate in the second session was 190 and my heart rate at the end of the final session was 190bpm again. This increase in heart rate shows the successful application of the progressive overload each week of the training programme as I was made to work at a higher intensity and therefore I experienced and increase in heart rate. After completing the training programme I feel like the timing element of progressive overload was applied really well. This is because by varying the length of the sessions meant that different components of fitness were worked in different ways to ensure that the overall fitness was increased rapidly and