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Achievement Standard 91500
Level 3
Evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme
Credits 4
The Event – Training for a purpose
Achievement Evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.
Achievement with Merit Evaluate, in depth, the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.
Achievement with Excellence Critically evaluate the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme.
This assessment activity requires you to evaluate the effectiveness of a six-week training programme that you will take part in.
Your evaluation, which will be in the form of a written report, will be assessed on the extent to which you critically evaluate the effectiveness of the programme. This will involve: making coherent, insightful judgements by questioning and challenging assumptions about the effectiveness of a performance improvement programme; and using those judgements to identify and justify what modification(s) may be made to improve the effectiveness of the programme. You will not be assessed on the quality of your training programme.
1 Biophysical principles may include:
· functional anatomy
· biomechanical principles
· skill learning
· sport psychology.
2 Socio-cultural factors may include:
· societal
· political
· economic
· environmental
· ethical
· cultural
· historical.
Biophysical principles and socio-cultural factors
Biophysical principles and socio-cultural factors
The biophysical principles and socio-cultural factors used must relate to the student’s actual programme improvement programme being evaluated. The weighting between the evidence provided for the biophysical principles and socio-cultural factors may not be equal, however evidence of both is required.
It is expected that more than one biophysical principle and more than one socio-cultural factor should be used in the evaluation. Refer to Explanatory notes 5 and 6. Methods and principles of training could be considered alongside other biophysical principles.
Making judgements
Making judgements
Student responses need to provide clearly identified judgements about the effectiveness of the performance improvement programme using relevant biophysical principles and socio-cultural factors. These judgements should be justified and supported with specific examples from the training programme experience.
For Excellence, coherent and insightful judgements should be clear, connected and show deeper understanding. The judgements should be used to make clear and reasoned modifications to improve the effectiveness of the programme.
Questioning and challenging assumptions
Questioning and challenging assumptions
Student responses must provide a critical evaluation that includes identifying clearly assumptions that relate to the students’ actual performance improvement programme, and these should be questioned and challenged.
What is your fitness goal? Specify a type of fitness
Why did you select this type of fitness?
Why is having a purpose important if you are going to achieve your fitness goals?
Resistance training
Resistance training
Explain what you have done in terms of resistance training - what components of fitness were you hoping to improve - what type of resistance training did you do and why did you choose this (machine, Free body resistance) - consider pros and cons of using the different types of resistance training
Discuss how many sets and how many reps of the exercises you are doing and why. - The exercises, resistance you choose and the amount of repetitions you do should be specific to your fitness goal
Discuss the importance of following a concentric contraction with an eccentric contraction.
Discuss the training principle of progressive overload. Explain how you have achieved this with resistance training. Explain how you have progressed by either increasing intensity, duration or frequency
Self Efficacy and Fitness
Self Efficacy and Fitness
Efficacy
Efficacy is your own judgement of your ability to make things happen and be successful.
It affects your willingness to set BIG goals, sacrifice, overcome setbacks and how much accountability you accept for your decisions, behaviour and outcomes.
Strategies to improve Self Efficacy and esteem
Optimistic self talk
Thinking of past experiences and success
Thinking of others success
Accepting compliments people give you
Recognising when people give you compliments
Imagining and visualising success
Physiological Adaption
Physiological Adaption
Explain the Physiological adaptions that have happened to muscles as a result of your training - Discuss the different fibre types and how your type Fast twitch A fibres adapt as a result of training - explain what is happening to your Fast Twitch A fibres
Explain how your training has been specified for your fitness goal. Explain why and how and give examples
Physiological Adaption as a result of Overload from Aerobic training
Physiological Adaption as a result of Overload from Aerobic training
explain the adaptions that occur to the respiratory and circulatory system as a result of the overload that happens from a training programme
Circulatory system
Cardiac hypertrophy; increased stroke volume (SV); decrease in resting heart rate (HR); increase in maximum cardiac output (Q); capillarisation at the lungs and muscles; increase in number of red blood cells; increased size and strength of the heart; drop in resting blood pressure due to more elastic muscular wall of veins and arteries
Respiratory system
Increased vital capacity; increased number of functioning alveoli; increased strength of the respiratory muscles (internal and external intercostals and diaphragm); increased lung capacity and volume
Explain the advantages of that physiological adaption to our lifestyle and our health
Evaluation of 10 week training
Evaluation of 10 week training
Questions to consider in your evaluation
Did you achieve your fitness goal?
What method of training did you use and what was the most important?
How did you apply the principles of training?
What Physiological adaptions happened to your body as a result of your training? How do you know this?
What inter relationship was there between your psychology and your application of methods of training?
What would you do differently if you could start again?
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