Principles of Training (3)
The fifth principle of training is recovery. Rest is an important part of any training plan, just like we just talked about, and rest is in proportion to the intensity and duration of exercise sessions. So the harder and the longer you exercise the more rest that particular body system needs. The sixth and final principle of training is that individual differences matter. At the very extreme, think about the different training needs of a 25-year-old man who's a member of the national soccer team, compared to the training needs of a 75-year-old man who's overweight and has been sedentary for most of his adult life. Clearly, the physical conditions of these two men are very different, and they would need very different training plans. In addition to that, they probably have very different goals. So for example, the 25-year-old man that's a member of the national soccer team might have very specific goals related to soccer, compared to the 75-year-old man who probably has a lot of health-related goals, maybe to reduce his risk of falling, maybe to just improve overall health. But either way, the important point here is that each person, regardless of how different they are or how similar they are, each person has different needs when it comes to developing their own physical fitness.