Recognition of an athlete in good sports form

Athlete that is in good sports form can be recognized by following facts:

1)      Starts training easy and fast, needs less time to warm-up and achieve needed work temperature;

2)      Handles the loads easy;

3)      Handles load changes without much problems;

4)      Athlete is capable of doing specific muscle work on so high level of force, speed, endurance and coordination; that is not available when he is out of form;

5)      Athlete trains economically – for same work athlete expends less energy;

6)      Technic- tactic training works at the highest level;

7)      Arsenal of skills that he rules is being applied without any difficulties;

8)      He feels himself easy when transferring from one type of training to the other;

9)      Less number of errors is made by the athlete;

10)  New skills are being adopted faster by the athlete;

11)  After competition, organism functions are recovered pretty fast;

12)  Psychological component is on the highest level, and psychological fatique remains on the lowest level, without creating any mental barriers;

13)  Athlete is in very positive emotional state;

14)  Athlete has very emphasized wish to train and compete;

15)  Combat mood is present;

16)  Athlete firmly believes in his own possibilities;

17)  Athlete acquires better results;

18)  Athlete is more focused on training and games, and less on surround factors;

19)  Athlete simply can’t wait for match to get started in order to show the best performance;

20)  Athletes’ reaction time is significantly quicker;

21)  Athlete has a lot more ideas during match;

22)  Athlete thinks faster and more rationally.

"Periodization, theory and methodology of training", Tudor Bompa

"Basics of sports training", Vladimir Koprivica