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The Use-Disuse Principle

Spinning plates analogy: training different traits at the same time, bearing in mind the residual training effects of each component of fitness.

The Use-Disuse Principle means that your muscles/systems hypertrophy with use and atrophy with disuse.

Also, known as the Reversibility Principle: individuals lose the effects of training after they stop exercising but the detraining effects can be reversed when training is resumed.

Residual training effects: residual training effect is the retention of changes in the body state and motor abilities after the cessation of training beyond a certain period. After training cessation, the training effect of various fitness components decrease gradually at varying rates.

"Use it or lose it" principle.

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