Junior Athlete Education

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Success in sportperformance profiling
A workshop to help you profile your sport and
identify your needs to achieve success in sport
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Task one complete and move the pieces of Team
You that you have now fully established
coach
teacher/ employer
You
family/ friends
Identify anything you still have to action
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Task two life balance

• Draw in the see-saw angle to show your relative
  life balance for
• sport and work/school
• sport and family
• sport and friends
• sport and other interests.

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Success in sportperformance profiling

• By the end of the workshop, you should be able
  to
• profile your sport and the attributes of elite
  performers
• draw up your own profile and identify your
  strengths and weaknesses on selected attributes
• prioritise areas for improvement
• plan how you are going to use Team You to help
  you improve the selected attributes.

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Task three elite athletes in sport seem to have
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Task four successful athletes in my sport/event
seem to need
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Task five identifying goals
Identify your long term goal, then your
performance goal (measurable) for the next 12
months

• select ten attributes (from the list or your own)
  you feel are most important to achieve this goal
• have you covered every angle physical? mental?
  technical? tactical?
• share your list with a partner and explain what
  you mean by each one and then write it in the box
  under Description
• make any changes you want to your list so that
  you have what you think are the ten most
  important attributes to achieve this success in
  12 months.

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John Nabors goal setting story

• John was inspired by Mark Spitzs seven swimming
  gold medals in the 1972 Olympics, John set a long
  term goal (outcome or end goal) to win 100m
  backstroke in 1976.
• He estimated that the world record time would be
  required and set this as his performance goal
  which meant a huge five second improvement
• John divided the five second deficit by the
  number of hours of training over four years. He
  found it was 1/5 of an eye blink per hour of
  training which he deemed possible with hard and
  smart training (short term goals)
• John won the gold in both the 100 metres
  (world record) and 200 metres in 1976.

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Task six goal setting
Name 12-month goal
Date
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Task seven self rating

• Rate yourself on each attribute on a scale of 1
  (very poor) to 10 (could not be better).
• Remember it is important to be honest and
  realistic.
• Rate where you would like to be on each attribute
  in 12 months time, ensuring it
• will make a real impact on your performance
• is realistic but challenging
• is in line with your goal and priorities
• will not threaten to upset your lifestyle
  balance.

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Example
Name Martin Jacks 12-month goal Achieve 3.2
ranking by May 2003 Date 05/02
Ranking 1 very weak, 10 could not be better
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Martins selected areas for improvement
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Goals should be SMART

• S Specific
• M Measurable
• A Achievable and agreed
• R Recorded
• T Time framed

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Task eight my selected area(s) for improvement
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Martins action plan
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Task nine action planning

• In pairs, one athlete asks questions to help the
  other identify a concrete list of activities and
  tasks to close the gap between where you are now
  and where you want to be.
• For each action or task
• determine time frames
• think of barriers and ways to overcome them
• think of people to support
• assess level of commitment to do it honestly.
• Ensure both athletes have a turn at asking
  questions.
• Begin working on own plan.

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Task ten my action plan
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How Team You can help to action your plan
Team You
Plan
Review
Do
Team You
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Team You
Sport
Family and friends
NGB
Parents
Coach
You
Teacher
Other
School
Academic
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Annual planner for year
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Planning exercise
For the next workshop 1. Mark the main
competitions in the top row and write underneath
the sport and the team. 2. In the next row, mark
key training dates/phases as well as rest
times. 3. In the third row, mark important school
dates, e.g. exams, assignments. 4. Finally, in
the fourth row, mark important social dates, e.g.
family holidays, birthdays.
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Third workshop planning

• Please bring with you the completed
• planning handout
• home, school and squad questionnaires.

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Success in sportperformance profiling
Profiling your needs and action planning to
achieve success in sport and life.
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