Gender and Age Differences in Response to Training

Fitness training, or athletic training, can be defined as a systematic way of improving one's fitness for a desired benefit (e.g., one's health, one's sports performance). Training is typically conducted in two arenas—aerobic fitness and muscle strength and endurance—and operates around several different principles, including the overload-fatigue-recovery-adaptation cycle, reversibility, and specificity. It is important to note, however, that not everyone will have the same response to fitness training. Training response can be affected by one's general health (i.e., current physical fitness and ability ...