PDP Process - Assignment Prep

When planning your PDP for the physical factor you will have included approaches that are appropriate for developing CRE.

What are the guidelines that you must apply/follow to ensure your PDP is successful in improving your fitness levels?

Gradually increase the demands of training to avoid plateau

This can be done by altering the FREQUENCY, INTENSITY, TIME!

Specific - to the factor you are focusing on, your development needs, your role within the activity   

Realistic - in a training or performance context 

Adaptable - can be simplified or overloaded to suit your performance/fitness levels 

Recordable - diary entries, reflections, re-testing – to measure the effect of the approach on your performance 

Positive self-talk relates to the ability to overcome negative thoughts. Positive self-talk seeks to bring the positive out of the negative to help you do better next time a mistake/negative event happens. The statements you choose need to be realistic and believable, especially in low-confidence situations. 

This is about creating a mental image or intention of what you want to happen. When you visualise, you are trying to picture the event as vividly as possible and then try to duplicate that. Your thoughts should always be positive and envisaging a positive and successful outcome.

Mind can wander  

Needs to be developed over time 

Requires effort, dedication and time 

A quiet space is required to ensure emotional focus. This can be difficult with team-talks, changing room music, teammates chatting, crowd noises etc. 

It allows the athlete to familiarise with a competition site, a race course, a complex play pattern or routine etc.     

It can reduce the pressure of competition meaning less mistakes will be made

It can motivate the athlete by recalling images of their goals for that session, or of success in a past competition or beating a competitor in competition

It can reduce negative thoughts by focusing on positive outcomes  If the athlete sees themselves performing skills correctly and successfully, it will increase confidence 

Performers may not give the approach sufficient time to practice it, resulting in limited development  Unless a performer is willing to challenge the thought process they go through when they make a mistake, then little or no progress will be made   

Unless a performer is willing to challenge the thought process they go through when they make a mistake, then little or no progress will be made 

Performers may find it embarrassing to say positive phrases about themselves, which can lead to little progression

The approach is versatile and can be done anywhere – not only in the training room, or game but also at home because no specialist equipment is required. 

It gives you an opportunity to confront a situation in your head and deal with it appropriately before it happens 

Can keep you focused on the ‘right’ things and control your feelings so that you have better responses to situations that occur during the game 

It is a pre-rehearsed and planned manoeuvre that is used to beat an opponent or score a point.  Set plays are repeated in training so that all players involved are aware of their responsibilities when the set play occurs in the game.  

Examples 

Corner in football, Throw in in football, Free kick in football

Examples 

Centre pass in netball, Throw in basketball

The practices are specific to the activity and can develop your chosen area of weaknesses e.g. team dynamics/roles & responsibilities 

Everyone is clear about their role and what is happening. 

Can perfect techniques and plan strategies that can be easily transferred into competitive situations – prepares me fully for most circumstances that may arise in my performance 

Builds positive relationships. 

There may not be the same pressure as in a live/ real performance situation. 

Players may feel ‘pigeon holed’ in terms of positions if team has dominant players who demand certain roles 

Players may not be able to adapt to the game if the set play does not run exactly as it was practiced 

Individual weaknesses causing set play to break down (poor skill level, height disadvantage, lack of speed etc. 

Communication drills are set up the same way a drill is set up to develop skills such as passing or shooting. The emphasis in these drills is to force the players to talk to each other. 

They are game like drills involving sports equipment that can help to develop both physical and social factors at the same time     

This allows the players to experiment with different types of communication to work out what works best

It improves the link between players so that in a real live situation the communication should be automatic

Can build a player’s confidence in communicating which is then transferred into the game 

The drills only rehearse parts of the performance and unless they are practices in conditioned games,    

it is likely they will not be effective in pressure situations

Some players may not take the practice seriously and still do not communicate with team mates

Can be boring repeating the same thing, particularly if the drill is not challenging 

Building team dynamics refers to various activities known as team building tasks. These are used to motivate team members and increase the overall performance of a team. 

Any team building task or activity can be used when describing this approach

Place 9 hoops on the floor in the 3 lines of 3. 

Number 8 players 1-8 and put them in a hoop in any order.

Players must communicate and work together to get themselves into numerical order

The first hoop (top left) must be free at the end

Players can only move up and down or side to side (no diagonals)

When the exercise is complete players must be in order 1-8 from the 2nd hoop onwards 

eam building activities are easy to set up and complete, and do not require a lot of equipment. This means they are an efficient use of time, and results and improvements can be seen quickly. 

This approach allows a team to work together and get to know each other without the pressure of playing in a competitive game. 

It allows players to understand their teammates personalities, and how these can be best applied when going into a competitive situation. 

Everyone in the team is involved, so they feel included; this will boost confidence

This will only have a positive impact if all players commit to the exercise.

Some teammates may feel that these exercises waste valuable time that could be spent training for a competitive game; this means that they become disengaged.

There is no pressure, so this approach does not reflect a game situation.

It is difficult to get any objective data (statistics) to see if improvements are taking place when using this approach. 

The task will be due on Wednesday 17th February.

This will be added into the assignment tab of the Teams page.