Methods of training

Advantages

• Easy to set up and flexible
• Can select activities specific for your sport
• Can develop both fitness and skills
• Allows for rest in between  stations for recovery
• Develops both aerobic and anaerobic
• Easy to apply Progressive Overload and measure improvement

Disadvantages

• Can require lots of equiptment
• Have to keep checking a stopwatch if you don't have a training partner
• Can be difficult to maintain work rate

Advantages

• You can work on your own or in a group
• Improves aerobic fitness
• Can take place in a variety of places
• Can be adapted to suit your individual needs
• Very cheap, minimal equiptment
• Easy to monitor and apply Progressive Overload

Disadvantages

• Can become boring and requires motivation to continue
• Time consuming
• Does not develop other components of fitness

Advantages

• Takes place over short periods of time
• Includes rest which allows for recovery 
• Includes repitions which raises HR to near maximum
• Develops aerobic and anaerobic systems
• Can develop other areas of fitness (agility, speed, etc)
• Allows for monitoring and evaluating HR

Disadvantages 

• Can become repetative and requires motivation to carry on
• Difficult to identify how difficult an individual is working
• Can be difficult to mantain work rate

Advantages

• Takes place over short periods of time
• Includes active rest which allows recovery
• Includes repititions which raises HR to near maximal
• Can develop other areas of fitness and skill
• Adaptable to team games and individual fitness levels
• Can be done almost anywhere on any terrain

Disadvantages

• Can become repetative and rquire motivation to continue 
• Difficult to identify how hard an individual is working
• Can be difficult to maintain work rate

(Fartlek and interval  are very simular however fartlek can take place over different terains and can include hills)

Advantages

• Can improve Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance and Power
• Increase muscle size
• Improve muscle tone
• Assist recovery after injury
• CAn focus on specific muscles
• Large variety of exercises
• Easy to monitor and apply Progressive Overload

Disadvantages

• Requires specialist equiptment, which can be expensive
• Requires knowledge of correct techniques to gain benefits and avoid injury

A combination of training methods. Does not mean swimming one day cycling the next

Advantages

• Allows for a variety of training and therefore can make training interesting 
• You can train with different people in different activites or alone
• Certain muscle groups can be rested from day-to-day
• Training can be adapted to suit the weather conditions

Examples

• Sprinters- interval training (power and speed), weight training, circuit training
• Racket players- interval training and circuit traing for muscluar endurance