Component 4: Personal Exercise Programme

Introduction

You are about to embark on a task which will assess your skills in analysing and evaluating performance through a personal exercise programme (PEP) in order to improve/optimise performance in a chosen physical activity. This will make up 10% of your overall GCSE PE grade. It will be assessed by your teacher and moderated externally.

You will develop a knowledge and understanding of the principles of training, relevant methods of training and use of data in order to analyse and evaluate your PEP. Your PEP will cover a six- to eight-week period. You must choose a sport from the specified Edexcel activity list.

Aim and planning analysis

1. You must complete a PARQ (physical activity readiness questionnaire).
2. Carry out a range of fitness tests to assess a variety of components of fitness.
3. Identify the component(s) of fitness the student wants to improve, with a suitable justification in relation to the impact on their performance in you selected sport.
4. Then select and justify the use of appropriate principles of training, and SMART targets, to set your goals for your PEP.

Carrying out and monitoring the PEP

1. You must carry out the training programme and record your results in order to be able to analyse your results. You are encouraged to adapt your programme where necessary in order to improve your progress and record these adaptations for later justification in the write up.
2. At the end of the programme fitness tests are to be repeated and the data will be used to justify changed levels in performance.

Evaluation of the PEP

You must evaluate your data to show how your performance in your chosen activity has improved, as well as to make recommendations for further improvements to your performance.

The analysis should include:

• Plotting raw data from appropriate test results graphically.
• The use of PARQ, graphs, charts, tables, and diagrams/flow charts to show evidence to support their analysis and evaluation.
• Comparison and explanation of pre- and post-PEP fitness test results.

You must analyse and evaluate the data you have gathered to support arguments, explaining the impact on your performance. If your performance has not improved, you should give reasons why, for example injury.