Complexity: A Novel Load Progression Strategy in Strength Training
| Autor: | Cauê V. La Scala Teixeira, Alexandre L. Evangelista, Paulo Eduardo de A. Pereira, Marzo E. Da Silva-Grigoletto, Danilo S. Bocalini, David G. Behm |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Functional training
medicine.medical_specialty Opinion Sports medicine Strength training Computer science Physiology education specificity lcsh:Physiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine hybrid training Physiology (medical) medicine lcsh:QP1-981 030229 sport sciences Industrial engineering Popularity Physiological responses multicomponent training functional training Technical report resistance training Training program 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Progressive overload |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Physiology, Vol 10 (2019) Frontiers in Physiology |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fphys.2019.00839/full |
| Popis: | With physical training, the internal load is understood as the physiological responses resulting from the body's exposure to a given external load (Halson, 2014). In strength training, the external load comprises all the acute and chronic variables that can be manipulated in a session or in a training program, for example, resistance load (weight lifted), number of repetitions, speed of execution, range of motion, number of sets, rest interval between the sets and weekly frequency (American College of Sports Medicine, 2009). Respecting the biological principles of physical training and considering the need to apply progressive overload so that training adaptations are constantly stimulated, a well-recommended approach in the scientific literature is the progression of loads (American College of Sports Medicine, 2009). This progression involves the increase or variation of the external loads, thus generating larger internal loads (muscle forces or torques) and increasing adaptations over time (Williams et al., 2017). In the practical field and in most research involving strength training, three strategies are often explored to increase and vary the external load: (1) volume (i.e., number of sets or repetitions), (2) intensity (amount of resistive load lifted), and (3) density (i.e., alter rest periods, keeping volume and intensity unchanged). However, with the increase in the popularity of functional training (multicomponent training, task-specific training), which involves the use of strength training in a synergistic, integrated, and balanced manner with other physical capacities (La Scala Teixeira et al., 2017), and the growth of functional training in the scientific literature, has been an emergence of a more unconventional strategy of load progression: complexity. Complexity attempts to increase the level of physical training stress/stimulus without necessarily increasing the conventional variables (i.e., load, volume, frequency). In other words, increasing the complexity increases the exercise technical difficulty, the variability in the execution patterns, and the uncertainty in the actions to be performed. Although this form of load progression has been used more frequently by coaches and researchers over the last decade, there are a limited number of studies that discuss the concept of complexity in strength training as well as the possibilities for progression that this feature offers (Suchomel et al., 2018). Thus, the aim of this technical report/opinion paper is to discuss the concept of load progression based on increasing complexity, in order to better elucidate its characteristics and make feasible its evidence-based application. |
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