TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER AND THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER Testing the Profile Discrepancies and Deciding Priorities Sports Performance Area Focus Discrepancy Test Name Repeatable What is the test method? This needs to be detailed so anyone could conduct the test. Measurable How will you measure the test? What are the units and how will your measurement be accurate? Specific How can you justify your test is specific to the focus discrepancy? Is there any normative data to compare and rank performance? Test Diagram If Appropriate Technical Tackling one on one. Video analysis Having retrieved video footage of the participant to watch back and to create notes and create a tally chart of how many times focus discrepancy of tackles one on one is either successful or unsuccessful. Then creating a percentage of the success of discrepancy. The test will be measured by creating a percentage from the tally chart of results on how successful the participant was at the focus discrepancy. The test is specific because it is in a game situation. There is no normative data but to be successful in 7’s a wing must be able to have a high percentage success rate of tackles. Tactical Remaining deep in arrow structure when attacking video analysis The same way as technical, having retrieved footage of my participant playing in a game, to create a tally chart when seeing the focus discrepancy of how many times I see the athlete in the correct position in the arrow structure – remaining deep. The test will be measured by tallying how many times there is an attacking opportunity and whether the athlete who is being analysed is in the arrow structure remaining deep and then calculating a percentage on how many times the athlete is in the correct position. The test is specific because the video is a game situation where the athlete is doing what they believe to be the right positioning and play. Psychological Confidence in decision making Confidence Questionnaire The questionnaire given will be filled out by participant who then helps create a score. This score is show by adding up all the numbers from the questionnaire and finding a total. The normative data to go with the results are found on the questionnaire and compare the athlete’s results to the normative data. The test is measured by the scores given and these scores must be added up to create a total. The higher the total means that the athlete has a high confidence level in their sports performance. This test is specific due the questions being sport specific and relating to game situations specific to the performer and how the performer feels.
Physiological Recovery of heart rate A bespoke test of how long beats per minute take to get to resting bpm/heart rate. The test is easily done by taking the athletes resting heart rate before exercise, and then taking part in a high intensity exercise which raises the heart rate, and then once exercise has stopped immediately takes the heart rate of the athlete and record this result and every minute afterwards until the heart rate is returns to resting heart rate. Heart rate is measured by Beats per minute; this can be measured by the athlete taking their pulse at their wrists or below the ear and counting how many beats there is within the minute. this is specific to rugby because the athlete must be able to recover in game situations but also throughout the tournament it is important for the athletes heart rate to be able to recover so that they can be prepared for the next game in short interval times