Explain how specificity plays a role in high-performance sports.
While the various components of skill-related fitness are interrelated, specific training can target particular skills for improvement. General levels of skill-related fitness are important for all sports, but some high-performance sports require a high level of fitness with a specific skill. By targeting the improvement of the particular skill required, specificity can be used to improve performance in the desired sport.
After completing a fitness evaluation, what steps should you take to improve your performance?
After completing a fitness evaluation, you should review your results, create challenging goals, create a personal training plan, and reevaluate your goals once you've reached the end of the plan.
According to the principles of FITT, what is the relation between the intensity of an exercise and the time an exercise needs to be performed?
Higher-intensity exercise requires less time to achieve the same benefit, while lower-intensity exercise requires more time.
Explain why exercise programs must increase in difficulty and duration over time to remain effective.
The body gradually adapts to a repeated workout, so the same exercise eventually produces less challenge and fewer gains. Increasing the program's difficulty or duration provides progressive overload, allowing fitness, strength, and endurance to continue improving safely.
Explain why the wall test is best considered a coordination test.
The wall test involves throwing a ball against a wall with one hand and catching it with the opposite hand as it bounces back. It measures the ability of using different body parts in conjunction with one another. While reaction time is somewhat a factor, it is a repetitive, pattern behavior test that makes good coordination a more important factor than agility, power, or speed.
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