Reverse the Curse
Time to finish up the principles of fitness training.
Now some of them are pretty self-explanatory. So I won't spend any time on them. There's the adaptation, progression, moderation, long term training and warm up/cool down principles. And if you want to sound like you really know what you're talking about you can say stuff like,
"You need to moderate your progression of adaptation through varying specific overload training, depending on your individual response in the long term of course."
There's one last one I'm going to talk a little about today and that's the dreaded Reversability principle.
Wouldn't it be great if you could train for a certain goal, reach it, then never have to train again for it but still maintain all the ability you gained? For example, training to do 50 pushups in a row, hit that goal, then never doing another pushup again but still having the ability to do 50 in a row if you wanted. That would be nice.
Unfortunatly, thanks to the reversability principle, that is not possible.
Simply put, if you dont use it, you lose it.
Any adaptations your body makes due to physical training can all be reversed with enough time.
It takes anywhere from 2-10 weeks to lose any physiological improvements you achieved through your training.
It really bugs me when my wrestlers come back to start the season and they're in terrible shape. Didn't they realize what they were about to embark on? Don't they remember last year?
It is so much easier to maintain the level your at than to lose it and have to get it all back again. You must be on a year round training schedule. Sure, you can emphasize certain aspects of your training at different times of the year, or just do the same style workout all the time (with variation of course.) But you just need to stay moving!
A key to life long fitness is to never stop. Always be finding new ways to challenge yourself, And definitely NEVER just stop. Or the reversability monster will come and steal away all you have worked for.
Constantly strive to improve.
Train smart,
RL
Now some of them are pretty self-explanatory. So I won't spend any time on them. There's the adaptation, progression, moderation, long term training and warm up/cool down principles. And if you want to sound like you really know what you're talking about you can say stuff like,
"You need to moderate your progression of adaptation through varying specific overload training, depending on your individual response in the long term of course."
There's one last one I'm going to talk a little about today and that's the dreaded Reversability principle.
Wouldn't it be great if you could train for a certain goal, reach it, then never have to train again for it but still maintain all the ability you gained? For example, training to do 50 pushups in a row, hit that goal, then never doing another pushup again but still having the ability to do 50 in a row if you wanted. That would be nice.
Unfortunatly, thanks to the reversability principle, that is not possible.
Simply put, if you dont use it, you lose it.
Any adaptations your body makes due to physical training can all be reversed with enough time.
It takes anywhere from 2-10 weeks to lose any physiological improvements you achieved through your training.
It really bugs me when my wrestlers come back to start the season and they're in terrible shape. Didn't they realize what they were about to embark on? Don't they remember last year?
It is so much easier to maintain the level your at than to lose it and have to get it all back again. You must be on a year round training schedule. Sure, you can emphasize certain aspects of your training at different times of the year, or just do the same style workout all the time (with variation of course.) But you just need to stay moving!
A key to life long fitness is to never stop. Always be finding new ways to challenge yourself, And definitely NEVER just stop. Or the reversability monster will come and steal away all you have worked for.
Constantly strive to improve.
Train smart,
RL
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