Introduction
Conditioning training includes all training contents whose goal it is to increase the conditional efficiency. Anyone who wants to build up stamina should bear in mind that stamina is not only about the endurance of an athlete. This mistake is unfortunately made too often and fitness is equated with endurance.
However, the collective term stamina is used to describe endurance, strength, speed and mobility. Condition therefore functions as an umbrella term for the abilities just mentioned. Condition can also be found as a subordinate term for physical performance.
How to build up condition quickly?
In general, you build up condition quickly if you start with a sport and practice it regularly and seriously. Sports such as swimming, running, hiking, inline skating, cycling and skiing are the best ways to train your condition. All aspects of fitness are addressed and with each unit more and more is trained.
So you can train continuously with the different sports in summer and winter. The ball sports are a little different, as not all conditioning skills are trained in the same way. However, stamina is still an important basic requirement to be able to perform well in these sports.
As a soccer, handball or tennis player, you should work on your condition a little bit if you want to be successful. Since condition is often mistakenly equated with endurance, the main focus of fitness building is unfortunately often on endurance and the rest is neglected. Of course, the training of strength, agility and speed should be given the same amount of time as the training of endurance. Endurance is best trained with medium to long endurance runs, cycling or swimming. You can include intervals (changing speeds) to train specific endurance.
The speed, strength and agility
The speed is improved and trained mainly through interval runs. This is a systematic alternation of different speeds and load and recovery phases. A playful form of interval training is the so-called driving game, in which the change between load and recovery phases is carried out independently and irregularly.
The athlete virtually decides for himself when to increase the pace and when to slow down in order to recover. The conditional ability strength is best built up through strength training. Strength training reduces the risk of injury, leads to a more efficient running style, allows for higher performance and speeds, increases calorie consumption and thus burns more fat.
Shapes and tones the body. An athlete’s flexibility is made up of the ability to stretch and flexibility and is an important part of athletic performance. Stretching units improve mobility and ensure optimal and efficient movement sequences. Above all, mobility is most easily underestimated when it comes to “building fitness”. This could also be of interest to you:
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