Training Methods

Start with training principles

The PE Studies flashcards introduce questions about specificity, progression, overload, reversibility and tedium. They offer a starting point for getting familiar with the terms used across the collection. Read a question, consider your answer, then use the card to check it.

Next, look at the Training mind map. It brings principles and components of fitness together with methods such as continuous, interval, fartlek and weight training. Use it to see how the terms relate before moving to a more specific resource.

Explore methods and program design

The Methods of Practice mind map describes whole practice, where a skill is performed without breaking it down. The mind map on motivation and training skills, tactics and strategies also looks at open and closed skills and their development in drills.

For program design, the Programme Designs map includes exercise selection and core design. The flashcards on resistance training and training methods cover contractions, programming principles and warm-ups. These resources offer different ways to study the ideas on this page.

Combine maps and quizzes

After exploring a map, try the resistance training quiz. Its questions include examples involving players and program needs. The quiz on functional programming asks about stability, mobility and movement. Choose the quiz that matches the material you want to practice.

Use the questions to identify terms or situations you want to look at again. Return to a relevant map or flashcard deck, then work through the questions again. The maps can help you organize ideas, while the quizzes give you questions to practice with.

Find the topic in the unit

Training Methods is a section of the Principles of Training and Programme Design unit in Physical education and sport. This collection brings methods, principles and program design together within that section. Explore a map, then choose a quiz that fits what you are studying.