FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE

FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE

1. HOW DOES TRAINING AFFECT PERFORMANCE?

   • Energy Systems
     • Alactacid Systems (ATP/PC)
     • Aerobic System
     • Lactic Acid System
   • Types of training and training methods
     • Aerobic
     • Anaerobic
     • Flexibility
     • Strength
   • Principles of training
     • Progressive overload
     • Specificity
     • Reversibility
     • Variety
     • Training Threshold
     • Warm up and cool down
   • Physiological adaptations in response to training
     • Resting heart rate
     • Stroke volume and cardiac output
     • Oxygen uptake and lung capacity
     • Haemoglobin level
     • Muscle hypertrophy
     • Effect on fast/slow twitch muscle fibres

2. HOW CAN PSYCHOLOGY AFFECT PERFORMANCE?

   • Motivation
     • Positive and Negative
     • Intrinsic and Extrinsic
   • Anxiety and Arousal
     • Trait and State anxiety
     • Sources of stress
     • Optimum arousal
   • Psychological strategies to enhance motivation and manage anxiety
     • Concentration/attention skills (focusing)
     • Mental rehearsal/visualisation/imagery
     • Relaxation techniques
     • Goal-setting

3. HOW DOES THE ACQUISITION OF SKILL AFFECT PERFORMANCE?

   • Stages of skill acquisition
     • Cognitive
     • Associative
     • Autonomous
   • Characteristics of the learner
   • The learning environment
     • Nature of the skill (open, closed, gross, fine, discrete, serial, continuous, self-paced, externally paced)
     • The performance elements (decision-making, strategic and tactical development)
     • Practice method (massed, distributed, whole, part)
     • Feedback (internal, external, concurrent, delayed, knowledge of results, knowledge of performance)
   • Assessment of skill and performance
     • Characteristics of skilled performers
     • Objective and subjective performance measures
     • Validity and reliability of tests
     • Personal VS prescribed judging criteria

4. HOW CAN NUTRITION AND RECOVERY STRATEGIES AFFECT PERFORMANCE?

   • Nutritional considerations
     • Post-performance
     • During performance
     • Pre-performance, including carbohydrate loading
   • Supplementation
     • Vitamins/Minerals
     • Protein
     • Caffeine
     • Creatine products
   • Recovery strategies
     • Physiological strategies
     • Neural strategies
     • Tissue damage strategies
     • Psychological strategies