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Fitness Program Design I am a fitness consultant at a local sports club. A sports performer has approached me and asked for advice on improving their fitness levels for the forthcoming season. I have looked at what I will have to do and decided my work will involve planning an effective training programme and recommending suitable methods of fitness training to support and improve their performance. There are four guiding principles, which apply to all fitness training. They are: 1. Specificity 2. Progression 3. Overload 4. Reversibility 1. Specificity means that the training specific to the sport or activity that you perform in, the type of fitness requirements of that sport and the particular muscle groups that are involved in your performance. For example, footballers and rugby players will do a lot of endurance work in their training along with exercise for specific muscles used in their sport, e.g. footballers- legs, rugby players- upper body work. 2. Overload...

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