Bigger, stronger, faster and injury free
The purpose of athletic training is to elicit a specific physiological response. This change then leads to improvements on a specific athletic task. For example, a football player training sudden changes in direction is then able to dodge a tackle because of this newfound ability.
What is often confusing to coaches and athletes themselves is the expected training outcome.
What athletic changes should be expected from a training session?
How can these changes be broken down and classified?
The following is a list of potential athletic training effects and the general timelines in which they occur.
- Acute Effects: These are considered the changes that occur immediately during the training.
- Immediate Effects: These are the changes related to a single training session and are seen fairly rapidly post-workout.
- Cumulative Effects: These effects take place as a response to consistent training.
- Delayed Effects (Chronic Effects): These effects are noted after a specified time period.
- Partial Effects: These effects emerge as a response to a single training activity
- Residual Effects: These effects are the retained changes that occur after the exercise has been discontinued, and past the time frame when adaptation can take place.
By keeping these classifications in mind when formulating or reviewing a training program, the coach or athlete can better gauge the current outcomes and compare them to the expected outcomes.
Using these can serve as a method to monitor training sessions and aim for higher levels of athletic performance while staying injury free.
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