Section 2 – Performing
Implementation
This circuit will be conducted in by back garden. It will take place twice a week on a one-hour basis.
Safe / efficient execution
To ensure that the training programme is safely carried out a few precautions will have to be taken into account. Obviously a warm up and warm down must be done to ensure that the muscles are warm, ready for training and do not become stiff but this will explained further in the next stages.
Attitude / Motivation
To gain maximum results from the personal exercise-training programme you need to be in the correct frame of mind. You also need to be fully aware of the dangers involved whilst doing a sport. By following the correct procedures whilst doing the circuit, unnecessary injuries can easily be avoided. You also need to ensure that the circuit is carried out every week without fail. If this does not happen then reversibility can take place and slow your progress down. The more often the circuit is completed the more fitter the body will become and it will be able to adapt quicker to more strenuous and demanding training.
Warm up / Warm down
A warm up ensures that the muscles are warm and prepared for the task ahead. Failure to do this will result in the muscles being more prone to being over stretched or strained. The warm up for my particular circuit is as follows.
Completing the warm down ensures that lactic acid does not build up within the muscles as this what causes them to become stiff.
Section 3 – monitoring
Use of the table
Brief notes
This circuit will be completed twice a week. My main aim of this programme was to improve my overall stamina. If the circuit does not seem to have a physically demanding aspect to it I will increase the time taken on each activity by about ten seconds. By doing this I will be able to gain maximum results from my circuit. By increasing the overload my body will adapt more to the sport that I am focusing on and my stamina will increase, improving my overall game which was the main purpose of this programme.
Recorded heart rate
Heart rate before the circuit = 71bpm
Heart rate after the circuit = 110bpm
Recording recovery rate
Recovery rate after the circuit =
Concluding statement
After completing this personal training programme I feel that I have improved in many aspects of my game and also achieved the maximum contributions towards the physical side of myself. I believe that I used my circuit to gain the full usage of my stamina.
Section 4 – Evaluation
Part A –
Appropriate level
Once I had prepared my circuit I ensured that It would not be too strenuous straight away as I wanted to progress steadily throughout the initial course. I wanted a programme that would specify a range of demanding activities, that would focus upon the aspects of my stamina and football abilities that need improving upon. I also did want to overload my body so that the reversal effects did not occur.
Appropriate order
To ensure that I achieved what I set out for, I tried to make the circuit as enjoyable as possible without removing the aspect of hard work. I covered this problem by inserting enjoyable skill stations into my circuit; this made me want to progress more. I also tried to alternate muscle groups so that I wasn’t constantly working the same muscles because this could of caused unnecessary pressure upon individual muscles.
Correct choice of activities
Apart from improving upon my stamina, my main aim of the training programme was to develop upon my overall ability within football. I think that my circuit focuses on certain aspects of football, which can always be improved upon, and they are:
Overall control – by passing the ball against the wall, I improve upon both my overall control of the ball and simply passing it.
Confidence upon the ball – I inserted a technique where upon I simply dribble a ball through some laid out cones, which I placed strategically so that they would require skill to get through. This builds the confidence of ones skills on a ball.
Part B
Manageability of the program-
I made sure that I completed the all the activities within the circuit correctly because if I didn’t then my results may be inaccurate. Later on during the circuit the physical demands did start to take effect upon me but I continued to progress throughout the circuit. After my body had adapted to the circuit after completing it a few times it became easier and to make it harder I could of added a few more reps on certain activities such as press ups or sit ups.
Enjoyment / interest / motivation
If this circuit was designed towards a different sport other than football say badminton for instance then it may not have interested me as much and I probably would not of shown the same enthusiasm that I had shown in my actual circuit. As football is my favourite sport then I would probably have gained more out of this circuit as it interested me more and I was far more motivated as I wanted to progress a lot in football.
Part C
Modifications
There where no alterations to my circuit. After completing the circuit a few times my body started to adapt to the exercise needed. At this stage I may have needed to incorporate a couple more time taken on each activity to be sure hat I improved my stamina throughout the course, so I added 10 seconds on.
Effects on the body
The first lap of my circuit was the most strenuous, as my body was not used to the specific training needed. I was not used to working those particular muscles needed, as I had not done a particular lot of training before hand, this made the circuit far more demanding to start with. I appeared out of breathe after most of the first activities and could not continue straight into the next stage. After continuously taking this circuit twice a week I began to become fitter and did not become out of breathe after each stage, instead I wanted to progress and overload my body so it became stronger.
Reference to my results
During the course of my training program I recorded many changes in my fitness. I added a few slight changes such as maybe completing a few more reps if it became to easy. This showed the progression that I had taken from the beginning and by increasing the intensity, during later stages, I made sure that I got as fit as possible from my circuit.
Part D
Effects on performer after completing course
After the first few times I completed the circuit I was out of breath. This was down to the fact that I had not recently done a lot of training, which was quite unusual for me. But after getting into the rhythm of the circuit and been used to working those particular muscles I found it relatively easy and did not appear as out of breath at the end of it. This is an obvious sign that my stamina has improved after using the circuit.
