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The Army Training System - AskTOP

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C 3SHOW VGT-5, PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISENOTE: Display one bullet at a time as you discuss them with the students.PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISEREGULARITYPROGRESSIONBALANCEVARIETYSPECIFICITYRECOVERYOVERLOADT224/OCT03/VGT-5Primary Leadership Development CourseRef: SH-3, FM 21-20 w/C1, p 1-4Regularity. To achieve a training effect, a person must exercise often. Oneshould strive to exercise each of the first four fitness components at least three timesa week. Infrequent exercise can do more harm than good. Regularity is alsoimportant in resting, sleeping, and following a good diet.Progression. <strong>The</strong> intensity (how hard) and/or duration (how long) of exercisemust gradually increase to improve the level of fitness.Balance. To be effective, a program should include activities that address allof the fitness components, since overemphasizing any one of them may hurt theothers.Variety. Providing a variety of activities reduces boredom and increasesmotivation and progress.Specificity. You must gear training toward specific goals. For example,soldiers become better runners if their training emphasizes running. Althoughswimming is great exercise, it does not improve a 2-mile-run time as much as arunning program does.Recovery. You should follow a hard day of training for a given component offitness by an easier training day or rest day for that component and/or musclegroup(s) to help permit recovery. Another way to allow recovery is to alternate the15

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