Training Methods & Principles
This training method includes repeated bouts of high intensity exercise followed by rest
What is HIIT?
This adaptation increases the amount of blood pumped per beat.
What is stroke volume?
This term refers to the number of deaths in a population during a given time period.
What is mortality?
This national scheme subsidises personal medical services for Australians.
What is Medicare?
This injury assessment method includes Talk, Observe, Touch, Active movement, Passive movement and Skills test.
What is TOTAPS?
This principle states that training must be matched to the specific demands of the sport
What is specificity?
This adaptation improves the body’s ability to transport oxygen.
What is increased haemoglobin level?
These are the major chronic conditions students must examine, including CVD and cancer.
What are chronic conditions, diseases and injury?
These organisations include private and not‑for‑profit sectors.
What are non‑government organisations?
This principle of physics explains how forces cause movement.
What are biomechanical principles?
This type of flexibility training involves a push‑against‑resistance phase followed by a deeper stretch.
What is PNF stretching?
This muscular adaptation refers to an increase in muscle size.
What is hypertrophy?
This group experiences inequities in health due to impacts of colonisation.
Who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples?
This program supports Australians living with disability.
What is the NDIS?
These injuries occur from repeated stress without adequate recovery.
What are overuse injuries?
This training method mixes fast running with slower recovery periods.
What is fartlek training?
Endurance training increases the efficiency of these muscle fibres.
What are slow‑twitch fibres?
This measure indicates how long a person is expected to live based on current death rates.
What is life expectancy?
This term refers to allocating resources based on need to achieve equality of outcomes.
What is equity?
This recovery method uses water to reduce fatigue and assist circulation.
What is hydrotherapy?
This principle refers to the decline in performance when training stops.
What is reversibility?
This respiratory adaptation increases the maximum amount of oxygen the body can use.
What is VO₂ max / oxygen uptake?
These factors include behaviours, biomedical factors, environmental factors and socioeconomic factors.
What are determinants of health?
This emerging challenge involves the increasing role of private companies in healthcare.
What is privatisation?
This training innovation uses technology to record and monitor performance.
What is digital or technological monitoring?