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FITTVP is an acronym that is the basis to how professionals that include exercise prescription as part of their services, make sure to meet all or most of their clients' goals, while making sure it is safe, enjoyable, and effective. While FITTVP focuses on the physical challenge of a workout is created and applied, FITTVP does not cover all processes and aspects important to an excellent exercise prescription plan/program.
Furthermore, FITTVP changes according to the health and/or fitness limitations (or the lack thereof) of every person individually. Thus, while FITTVP sets the work frame, there is much more to take into consideration in order to meet one of the most important principles of serving people - personalization. The principle of personalization is based upon the natural understanding that 8 billion people on Earth, are not all alike, thus personal attributes and characteristics must always be taken in consideration.
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We use FITTVP for suspected healthy people (people assumed to have no major health problems) and/or people regarded as "special populations" (people with either diseases, syndrome, clinical conditions, or undergoing unique physical processes that are not a disease by definition). They are termed special populations since the prescription of exercise for such people demand special consideration.
FITTVP stands for Frequency; Intensity; Time; Type; Volume; and Progression. Let's understand what each means and addresses:
Frequency - relates to the number of times a person should workout per time period, usually per week.
Intensity - relates to the extent of physical and physiological challenge. Since intensity is an indicator of the quality of work required from the body, it sets the quality of the workout.
Time - relates to how long should each workout session be. It represents the exercise duration every time you work out.
Type - related to the modality and fitness component used to create the body of the next workout. For example, working on endurance vs power and/or walking, cycling, swimming etc. How is the workout actually be structured. This will usually set the frequency, intensity, and time in many cases.
Volume - relates to the overall extent of every workout. It takes into consideration the distance traveled for CRF or weight lifted for resistance training (a workout with weights), the number of repetitions, and number of sets.
Progression - relates to the ratio between load and time. A fast progression schedule will load the body more per week, while a slow progression schedule will load the body less per week. Progression has a tight relation to the chances of getting injured or not. Faster progression is correlated with greater chances of possible injury.
While applying FITTVP to divers clients, their health, fitness, and personal information will chime in to change the FITTVP as required. That is why getting to know your clients is important to being able to change their FITTVP. Any change to the client's characteristics, should dynamically influence the FITTVP for them.
Posts to come will include recommended FITTVP settings for specific and special populations, as well as suspected healthy people, and FITTVP for specific fitness components.
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