Post 8 Overview of the 6 week PST

In week one I started of with a meeting with my sports performer because I thought this was a good way of finding out what my sports performer is like. Also it helped me find out what she needed to improve on and what her parents thoughts were about her training and competitions. In the meeting I also did a SWOT analysis to figure out my clients strengths and weaknesses. I chose too look at goal setting and self talk to help to motivate my client as from the meeting  I found that they were key factors that were stopping her from been able to succeed. In week one I did a 1 hour session on a Tuesday night we sat down and we were choosing short term goals, middle term goals and long term goals to suit her sport and her standard. In the second week we sat down and we spoke about self talk. We then got these songs together and created a play list and put them on an ipod for her to listen to atleast an hour before she raced. In week three we progressed the session on goal setting. In this session we were focusing on swimming technique and giving different techniques for her to try so we could try and get her to reach her goal. We also in this session analysed the performer by doing video analysis and when she had finished we both sat down and spoke about both of our thoughts on how she was progressing. In week four we focused on self talk. This session was one hour long and we focused on getting quotes and songs together and created a play list and put them on an ipod for her to listen to at least an hour before she raced. This would help to motivate her as they will be inspirational speeches. In week five we entered her into a competition. We did this too see if she could achieve her goal and we also videoed the race so we could look back on her strengths and weaknesses. We also wanted to do the competition so if we thought the goal/goals we had set her were to easy we could go back and strengthen them. In week six we also did a competition and in this competition was the first time she listened to her personal ipod before racing. We did this to see if it motivated her and gave her more confidence before she raced. And after the race we sat down and spoke about how she felt before the race and if she felt better listening to things before her race or worse so we knew if it worked or not.