2. Overcompensation Principle
Calluses build up on your hands as an adaptive response to friction. Muscle fibers grow in size and strength in response to training. Lacerated tissue develops scar tissue. All involve Mother Nature’s law of overcompensation for a stress response. In other words, it is nothing more than a survival mechanism built into the genetic code of the species.
3. Overload Principle
Related to the Overcompensation principle is the principle that states that in order to gain in strength, muscle size or endurance from any training, you must exercise against a resistance greater than that “normally” encountered. If you use the same amount of resistance for the same number of repetitions every workout, there will be no continued improvement beyond the point to which your body has already adapted.
There is a built-in problem with this principle. Your body is wonderfully adaptable to stresses imposed during training. As you get stronger and stronger, the stress levels required to force added adaptation rise to such a height that your recuperative powers simply cannot keep up. The solution? It is very simple. At this point you must go to a split system of training. Then, perhaps later, a double or even triple split. The only other solution will be for your training progress to plateau (or worse, you will enter a state of overtraining), as you are not affording your body ample time for recovery — and further adaptation — to occur. This solution begs the question of how to “periodize” your training.
International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA)
June 12, 2007 at 10:29 am
I am really enjoying your posts on the seven laws, looking forward to reading the rest. Lady Rose (80ish lbs lost so far, only 60ish to go!)
August 2, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Vitamin Water has crystaline fructose which is derived from and more concentrated (worse) than hfcs. I read your comment in a previous blog I saw. I like the stuff too . . . 😦
August 25, 2016 at 5:00 pm
okay, you did not say on the first post that you were going to post about them in separate articles – that’s a bummer,, I appliogize but I actually have your best interest in mind. In lieu of these laws I am just interested because these are actually the priciples that I swear by and to see others appreciating them same as I do is a great feeling cheers!