Operation Manual

Training Instructions
If you have not been physically active for a
long period of time and also to avoid health
risks you should consult your general
physician before starting to exercise.
Everyone, or almost everyone, is fascinated by the
champions/athletes among us. We dream away
when we have one look at a trained body, full of
muscles, in movement, and hope that one day we
also have an athletic body like that. It’s then that we
realize that exceptional performances need
exceptional talents, but also daily training, well
organized and planned within the smallest detail.
If we compare the genetic inheritance of great
athletes to the genetic inheritance of the sporty
amateur in general, we only can determine small
deviations, which can’t explain the difference in
performances.
However if we compare the trainings, we do see
great differences. In general, athletes on a higher
level do not only had years of training, they also
benefit from the help of a professional coach and
have adapted their lives to their physical condition.
Their training program is outlined and planned within
the smallest detail and is being regularly evaluated in
order to check if the preset goals are being achieved.
The sporty amateur who wants to improve his
performances usually starts training without a plan.
Sometimes he copies the training program of a well
known athlete. This usually slows down his progress
and often leads to strain the muscles and sometimes
the cardio-vascular system. A special, optimal
training program, suitable for everyone, would be
wishful.
The incredible complexity and the different adapting
processes which our body has to go through every
training, don’t allow us to use such a training
program. Whether you train on muscle development,
power, endurance, speed, flexibility or a better
coordination of your movements, everyone starts with
different initial conditions.
The goal of each training program is to improve your
performances. You don’t need to become a top
athlete, you also can train to lose weight or just to
feel better. The optimal performance can be for
example, run 5 minutes longer than before at the
same tempo and without interruption, or do more
push-ups than the day before.
The research on the influence of a sporty training on
our body has made lot of progress in the last several
years. Even if some questions are still unanswered,
the knowledge we achieved from the sporty science
and related fields, have proven their use in practice
and serve in the first place our top athletes. This
doesn’t mean we can’t use the basics of a training for
top athletes for every individual which practice a
sport and who wants to improve his performances.
Evaluation of your physical condition
For each level of your training program (development
of the muscles, endurance, flexibility, speed,
coordination of your movements), we recommend
you to find out through some tests on which level
you find yourself. But first we recommend you to
consult your physician in order to set up a health
report:
• Are you older than 35 years
• Have you not been exercising for a long time
• Do you have overweight
• Are some movements not suitable for you
• Do you have to take medicines
• Are you suffering from a serious disease or are
you having breathing difficulties
• Do you have a metabolic disorder (ex. Diabetes)
• Do you have any infections
• Do you have a fever as a result of any disease
• Do you have an infectious disease
• Are you having problems with your organs
• Do you suffer from hyperventilation
• Are you having any respiration diseases
• Do you have any pain while breathing
• Or do you have a poor physical condition
If your medical health is satisfactory, you can begin
to set up your training program. But before you start,
make sure you know your initial capacities – or a
diagnose–so it is easier to determine your goals.
Only then you can set up a training program which
will match your goals.
1. Diagnosis
2. Determine your goals.
3. Organization (long, mid-long, short term)
4. Evaluate
Regularly check your progress, so you can adapt
your training program if necessary. The following
survey shows the interaction between the 4
elements, which are important in an efficient training
program.
1. Diagnoqtique
entretien
préliminaire
et évaluation
Du niveau
2. Détermination des
objectifs et
des pronostics
Fixer le but à atteindre et
établir un plan
chronologique réaliste
3. Organisation
Prévoir des entraînements
à long, moyen et
court terme.
4. Contrôle
Vérification des résultats
obtenus en contrôlant
l’efficacité de
l’entraînement
au moyen de tests répétés
Programmation
Optimale
de
L’entraînement