P.e Self Analysis

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My self analysis will include the participation in Rounders, Batter  position.

Section 1.

As a batter in rounders, you will need an all round fitness, have good speed, good reaction time, co-ordination – hand eye co-ordination, agility, balance, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, good timing and a good body composition. These all contribute to the performance in game by enhancing the batter’s fitness and components in order to perform up to standard continuously throughout the game.

All Round Fitness.

Generally, any athlete or person who enjoys playing a game, such as rounders, will be healthily fit. However, in order to achieve this general fitness, a healthy diet and workout routine should be in place; this will contribute to all the fitness components such as agility, stamina, strength, balance, co-ordination and speed. However, because this fitness is only generic, extra exercises would be needed to progress the other components according to the sport that a person is participating in.

Good Speed.

Speed is a natural ability, however, to increase your speed you would need to increase your stamina, strength and include exercises that will test your speed and exercises that you could adapt to increase your strengths and improve your weaknesses. You should have good speed whilst being a batter in rounders to be able to hit the ball and then as soon as you’ve hit it and it hasn’t been caught, sprint to the first post or around all four posts to score points.

Reaction Time and Good Timing.

In order to hit the ball how you want to, hit it well, you need to know when to swing the bat and how to adjust it so that you can get the intended hit. As a batter, you are trying to hit the ball into an empty space in the field and sprint around all the posts, or stop at a post when necessary. The ball will be bowled to you and it will be in the space from your head to your knees and it will be bowled to your bat. You have to judge the distance and swing the bat when the ball is within batting distance, if you time it perfectly; you’ll hit the ball far and hopefully score well, if you don’t get the timing right then you may not hit the ball as intended.

Co-Ordination, Hand Eye Co-Ordination.

As a batter, to have good Hand Eye Co-Ordination means you will manage a bat well and will increase your reaction time in game play. This factor will increase how well you control your hands when your holding a bat and it will also help you in your reaction time, make it more accurate.

Agility.

In rounders, it is essential to be able to switch the direction in which you are running according to your surroundings, whether it be to dodge a fielder, run back to the previous base or even to sprint from a standstill in the opposite direction. This factor will prove to be necessary in this game because it enhances how quickly the player can change direction whilst running relatively fast and as they increase their agility, they will be able to change direction quickly and effectively at a high speed.

Balance.

It is essential to have balance in any given situation, however it is vital when running and because it is a natural ability, it can be easily improved.  Balance will affect your speed and co-ordination, they all compliment each other and if one is lacking, the other components will lack as well, decreasing your whole ability to perform as well.

Cardiovascular Endurance.

Potentially, Cardiovascular endurance controls your whole fitness. It is basically how strong your heart is, with the heart being one of the most important muscles in your body – pumping blood around your body, keeping the flow of oxygen constant to all muscles. As long as you are getting oxygen to your muscles, you will last longer, and if your muscular endurance is good then you will keep the good performance in a game for longer. In rounders, having a good cardiovascular endurance will increase how long you will perform well in a game, and in any game really, however, as a batter you need to perform well 90-100% of the time in order to help out your teammates.

Muscular Endurance.

This factor of fitness will increase how long your muscles last which will overall increase how long you have a high performance in a game. It will determine also how long you can sustain doing a certain exercise or activity; for example, running. In rounders, it is essential to be able to last a long time, depending on how many bats each batter has and how long it takes to get through each batter.

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Body Composition.

Body composition is important, it’s the build of your body and the ratios of fat : muscle : bone. Generally, an athlete would be a Mesomorph (a muscular build with a generic build of wide shoulders and narrow hips, not much body fat and they tend to have strong arms and thighs),  this would support all the training needed to become whatever games player you intended to become. In rounders, body composition is important because if you haven’t got the right body shape, it could affect your performance by decreasing all your fitness components which would essentially ...

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