PHTY203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: One-Repetition Maximum, Physical Therapy, Thrombosis
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Very high intensity 90-100% of 1rm (1-4 reps) High intensity 80-90% of 1rm (4-8 reps) Moderate intensity 70 80% of 1rm (8-12 reps) Low intensity 60-70% of 1rm (12-20 reps) Describe what is meant by progressive overload, specificity of training and accommodation. For example elite weight lifters may lift approx. The area of the body trained ie many resistance training exercises are bilateral in nature, however many movements are unilateral in nature so resistance training might be more specific if more unilateral exercises are included. It is a general biological principle that the response of an organism to a constant stimulus generally decreases over time. Accommodation is the decrease in response of a biological object to a continued stimulus. Outline the law of diminishing returns: an untrained individual can gain relatively large performance increases with a small training load, a heavy training load may only elicit slight performance increases from a well trained individual.
