Explain any four principles of physical fitness? in very short
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1. Overload Principle
To make improvements in your fitness you need to overload your body. You need to stress or challenge the bodily system (aerobic/musculoskeletal) beyond what it is used to.
2. Specificity Principle
Your exercise program must be specifically related to your training goals.
This means you need to overload your muscles in the best way for your particular purpose.
3. Individuality Principle
Remember this from school? "Everyone is different, which means everyone is special"
As sickeningly mushy as it sounds, your teachers were right.
Everyone's body is different.
Everyone has got different things which motivate them.
Everyone has got different levels of exercise experience.
Everyone has had different injuries.
This means that when you take up an exercise program you're going to get different results from Joe Bloggs down the road.
You may be someone who gets rapid strength gains from lifting weights. Whereas Joe might respond well to long distance running.
4. Reversibility Principle- "Use it or lose it"
Were you ever really good at something when you were younger? And then years later, after trying it again, you discovered "It just aint what it used to be"
Well then you've experienced the principle of reversibility.
The exact same thing happens with fitness training. If you stop exercising, gradually the gains that you initially made begin to disappear. It's a sad thing, but there's no avoiding it
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