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GCSE Physical Education · key term
The loss of fitness when exercise stops or training is significantly reduced.
Used by AQA and OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Principles of training and overloadReversibility means losing fitness when exercise stops or training is significantly reduced. Improvements are not permanent simply because they have been achieved once.
The loss of training-related fitness improvements when training stops or is reduced sufficiently.
Paper 1
The loss of training adaptations when training stops or becomes insufficient to maintain them.
Revise: Principles of trainingThe four principles are specificity, progression, overload and reversibility, remembered using SPOR. They work together: suitable training challenges the body, the body adapts, and the challenge must then increase gradually. If sufficient training is no longer maintained, those improvements can be lost.
For reversibility, explain that fitness adaptations are lost when training stops or becomes insufficient—not simply that the performer misses a session.
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