Daryl John C.

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

muscle groups that they are training.

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

sports for better performance to attain a particular goal.

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

compatible weight would help you improve your performance.

Power-velocity relationship
This simply state that your peak power occurs with the peak velocity of your muscular strength. If you are

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.