Higher physical education Monitoring & Recording

2.2 Explain the methods you used to record and monitor your development. Outcome 2.2

What is meant by ‘monitoring’? observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep under systematic review. maintain regular surveillance over. Supervising activities in progress to ensure they are on-course and on-schedule in meeting the objectives and performance targets What is meant by ‘monitoring’?

Determine whether an athlete is adapting to a training program Injury/illness prevention Monitor the effectiveness of the training program Maintain performance Prevent overtraining. Useful for team selection and determining which athletes are ready for the demands of competition. Enhance the athletes feeling of involvement in the training program, empower them, and increase their sense of ownership. Why monitor?

Other monitoring tools used by high-performance programs include heart rate recovery, questionnaires and diaries. Monitoring systems should: Be intuitive (natural, honest) Provide efficient and straight forward data analysis and interpretation Enable efficient and quick reporting of simple, yet scientifically valid, feedback. More about monitoring!

For some athletes/teams/squads, insufficient resources can be a major reason for not including a system of training monitoring. Resources may be in the form of time, money, or the human resources needed to collect, process, and analyse the data. A lack of knowledge or experience with monitoring techniques can result in an inability to implement a practical and sustainable system and/or an inability to interpret the data collected. Finally, the ability and opportunity to implement change and provide feedback is critical to a successful monitoring system, and, if this does not occur, many attempts at monitoring are not sustainable. Reasons not to monitor

Questionnaires & diaries Questionnaires and diaries can be a relatively simple and inexpensive means of determining the training load and subsequent responses to that training. However, both questionnaires and diaries rely on subjective information, which may need to be supported by objective data. It is possible for athletes to manipulate data and/or over- or underestimate training load. Importantly, the frequency of questionnaire administration and length of questionnaire should be considered to maximize compliance and avoid questionnaire ‘fatigue’. While questionnaires can provide simple and often useful subjective information, factors such as frequency of administration, time taken to complete the questions, sensitivity of questionnaire, type of response required (written answers or circling responses), time of day of completion and the amount of time required for appropriate feedback should all be considered. Questionnaires & diaries

What is meant by ‘recording’? The action or process of recording a performance for subsequent reproduction. Information or facts, set down especially in writing as a  means of preserving  knowledge.  The known history of performance, activities, or achievement. What is meant by ‘recording’?

This ‘recording’ process is very similar to the ‘monitoring’ steps taken by an athlete. The only difference being that the ‘recording’ process happens less frequently (maybe only 2/3 times throughout a training programme). What’s the difference?

You can use a variety of methods to record progress over the course of a training programme: Fitness Tests Video Analysis Match Analysis Sheets General Observation Schedules Knowledge of Results Methods of recording…

1. Explain why it is important to monitor your progress during your development programme. (4 Marks) 2. Describe a method you used to evaluate the success of your programme of work or a change you made to this programme. Why was this method appropriate? (4 Marks) 3. Explain the purpose of recording performance when carrying out your programme of work. (4 Marks) 4. During your training you will have had to make changes to your programme of work. Explain why these changes were necessary. (4 Marks) Question time 