Youth Fitness: Progression in Training Programs

Youth Fitness – Training Program
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Youth Fitness – Training Program
Training implies engaging in activities to enhance fitness or/and performance; this is practically accomplished by recognizing sports training principles: specificity, periodization, individualization, progression, reversibility, and overload. When creating a training program for an adolescent, the most important training principle is progression. The progression principle is anchored on the need to ensure an adolescent records constant gain in training efforts to sustain tissue overload as well as trigger continuous adaptation to the training activity at hand (Kasper, 2019). According to the progression principle, the adolescent’s performance or fitness is expected to improve with training. In this way, it is recommended that the training variables (e.g., intensity, volume, frequency) be increased to trigger further adaptation. The progression rate is increasingly important because rapid improvement can lead to injury, whereas progressing too slowly delays goal attainment (Kasper, 2019). For example, the progression would enable an adolescent weight ...