Muscular Strength
Muscular Strength
Muscular Strength
Cabradilla 02-05-20
1FSM-C Ex Physiology
Muscular strength
Intro
Muscles form and shaped according to its natural exercise built for an athlete or a particular sport. Different
sports vary from a specific muscle and in just a look, you can tell if that person does a particular sport. For example, if
it has a wide ang broad shoulders, you can tell that the person can be a swimmer. If those muscles have round shaped
deltoids and tall, you can tell that he or she is a basketball player. As you can see that it varies from different aspects of
Overload principle
Overload principle simply states that if the base muscle has a strength to pull a 5kg dumbbell and
wanted to reach 12kg, simply start with 5kg dumbbell with n number of repetitions. After so, those muscles
will adapt overtime and you need to add more weight until you reach your goal. This applies to all kinds of
Force-velocity relationship
With heavier force or weight that you carry, your performance in doing a particular sport activity can
have an impact and it could result to injury or no improvements at all. The weight that you needed should be
corresponding to the speed or how fast you can go during that activity. For example, you can sprint with 2kg
of weights on your feet and you don’t feel any pressure, your performance will not improve. However, if you
sprint with 10kg and you realize that your muscles are hurting, it could result to injury; hence, only a
doing sprinting, your momentum on your velocity peaks with the muscular power you have and with greater power the
greater velocity you will push through that could improve the performance of an athlete
Load-repetition relationship
In my own words, load-repetition relationship states that if you are training with muscular strength. Higher
load but lower reps and sets are done by an athlete. Mostly, weight lifting or sprint runners do this kind of training.
However, if you are training for muscular endurance. Lower load but higher reps and sets should be done, examples of
these sports are marathoners, long distance runners and swimmers, bikers, or triathlon athletes. Hence, being specific
to a sport is a big factor that needed to consider in order for a better performance
Principle of specificity
A basketball player should have a very powerful strength and muscular endurance in order to last up until 4 th
quarter or overtimes. To apply the principle of specificity, in order for the player to have a muscular strength, gradually
increased resistance training, plyometrics, court drills (high intensity) would improve the player’s physical condition
that he or she would have the strength to gain points. But for the muscular endurance, jogging, doing court drills
(repetitions with varieties of shadow plays) would help and improve that players stamina. However, in order for an
over-all performance. Circuit training with varieties of exercises and correct resting time (clinging to basketball) would
help the player’s ability to last longer and stronger during games.
Own sport
In my own sport badminton, muscular strength and muscular endurance is needed. Mainly because you need
muscular strength in order to have the power to reach a certain limit in foot works to have the timing to get the ball. At
the same time, you also need strength to control the ball to reach in a certain place for placing and set yourself to get
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that point. Also, you need to last long in rallies with such endurance while maintaining your cardio in order for
yourself to get relaxed and needed for the next rally. That is why badminton is not an easy sport, because you need to
activate your whole body including your mind and critical thinking in order for you to get a point.