PE-Factors Affecting Sport

PE-Factors Affecting Sport

1. Pyschological Factors

   • Motivation
     • Intensity of it is called arousal
   • Boredom leads to a lack of motivation
   • 'Wound up' suffering from anxiety
   • Extroverts
     • Socially outgoing
     • High arousal levels to perform
     • Team games with open skills and unpredictability
     • Invasion games such as hockey
   • Introverts
     • Usually shy
     • Perform better with lower arousal levels
     • Closed skills
     • Regular routines
     • Controlled environment such as golf
   • Direct agression
     • Boxing or rugby
     • Contact sports
   • Indirect agression
     • Tennis or volleyball
     • Hit a ball to 'beat' their opponent

2. Technology

   • Improve performance
   • Equipment
     • New materials and designs used to improve control, speed and distance
     • Heart rate monitors
     • Better football boots
     • Light-weight materials
     • Fitness monitoring equipment
   • Facilities
     • All weather surfaces
     • Better drainage and roofing for better playing conditions
     • Safety improvements
       • Skill development
   • ICT

3. Drugs

   • Doping
   • Stimulants
     • Alert and mask fatigue
     • Can cause heart failure
     • Addictive
   • Anabolic agnts
     • Helps athletes train harder and build muscle
     • Increased agression
     • Kidney damage
   • Diuretics
     • Remove fluid from the body
     • Hide other drug use
     • Causes severe dehydration
   • Narcotics
     • Mask pain caused by injury or fatigue
     • Addictive
   • Peptides and hormones
     • Gives more energy
     • Builds muscle
     • Risk of stroke or heart attack

4. Nutrition and personal hygiene