Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme (PEP)

The aim of your Personal Exercise Programme, often referred to as your PEP, is to improve your physical fitness by putting into practice much of the theory which you will have learnt throughout the other components of the GCSE curriculum. This will have two advantages - It will give you the opportunity to, firstly, use and apply your newly acquired theoretical knowledge and, secondly, it will improve your level of fitness. This in turn should help you to improve your practical performance in your chosen sports.

A PEP is a training programme that is specific to you and to your chosen physical activity or sport. It shows exactly how to plan to train in order to improve or optimise your performance, and records how you actually trained and improved your fitness over 6-8 weeks of monitored training .

Your PEP can be based on any physical activity from the activity list show on Component 3 - it could be one of the three activities you have chosen for your practical performance, or another activity from the list (we recommend that your PEP is based on one of your chosen sports). If you are unsure which activity or sport you should pick, ask your teacher for advice and support.

You will be assessed on your ability to analyse your plan and evaluate you PEP at the end of monitored training . You will not be assessed on how much you improve your performance, or on how well you actually carry out the plan.

You can submit your PEP in two ways:

• A written PEP, with a maximum of 1500 words (not including PAR-Q, graphs, charts, tables or training record forms)

• A verbal PEP; this will be recorded and should be a maximum of 15 minutes long

*We recommend a written PEP is completed *