Skill-related fitness is broken down into six different components; agility, speed, power, balance, coordination, reaction time. These skill-related components are movements that are necessary for an individual to successfully demonstrate a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.

Situps are classic abdominal exercises done by lying on your back and lifting your torso. They use your body weight to strengthen and tone the core-stabilizing abdominal muscles. Situps work the rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, and obliques in addition to your hip flexors, chest, and neck.

Cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition.

Another name for skill-related fitness is cardiovascular fitness. Power is a measure of performance fitness.

As shown in figure 2.1, your fitness, health, and wellness are affected by five types of determinants: personal, environmental, health care, social and individual, and healthy lifestyle choices. Some are more within your control than others.

Health-related fitness is characterized by moderate to vigorous physical activity. In contrast, skill-related physical fitness includes health-related components, but it also covers components related to physical performance.

Here are nine signs of overtraining to look out for:

• Decreased performance.
• Increased perceived effort during workouts.
• Excessive fatigue.
• Agitation and moodiness.
• Insomnia or restless sleep.
• Loss of appetite.
• Chronic or nagging injuries.
• Metabolic imbalances.

Detraining is what happens when you take a prolonged break from training: you lose fitness. The physiological changes your training stimulated effectively wear off – your body resets itself back to ‘sedentary mode’.

3 Steps to Avoiding Detraining

1. Step 1: Reduce frequency. You can reduce your number of weekly rides by about 30%, which means a rider can go from riding 6 days a week to 4 days, or 4 days to 3.
2. Step 2: Reduce volume.
3. Step 3: Maintain or increase intensity.

How can I limit muscle mass loss during lockdown?

1. Stay Active – reduced activity levels result in muscle atrophy (muscle loss).
2. Protein intake – protein – as we all know is the building block of our muscles, ensure you are hitting between 1.6-2.0g of protein per kg of bodyweight.

Detraining is defined as the loss of physiological and behavioral exercise-induced adaptation [26]. Detraining results in a decrease in fatty acid oxidation capacity in muscle, liver, and adipose tissue [27], and increases body weight and fat mass [28, 29].

This brief article categorizes ‘Detraining’ as part of the Principle of Reversibility. This principle is broadly defined by stopping or markedly reducing physical training leading to an induction and a partial or complete reversal of adaptations earned from training.

Variety in to an exercise program allows the body to adapt to many demands, from high intensity exercise to slow, steady state exercise. Variety is important in a fitness program because it allows for your body to be challenged on a consistent basis and to overcome a plateau.

From a cardiorespiratory perspective, within 4-8 weeks of suspended training, blood volume, stroke volume and cardiac output decrease. The body loses its ability to move large volumes of blood. This occurs partly because heart muscle size can actually decrease over time.