Week Six

Week Six

To conclude our six weeks I had a meeting with Natalie to discuss her progress and how she felt about the strategies I chose and if she would stick to this plan. The session I did lasted around 20 minutes and was done in the sport hall. We then spoke about each strategy individually and how she felt about each of them, she said that listening to music whilst she was performing helped increase her motivation as it was keeping her pumped and happy, it also helped with her concentration and after the first week of being on the treadmill for 20 minutes she said she enjoyed it and it was a lot easier when she was listening to music as she was actually enjoying it and enjoyed singing a long to the songs she had chosen. She said that the main downside to listening to music was that she got easily distracted from the task at hand and half the time stopped giving it her full intensity and she felt it decrease as she was singing to a song and paying more attention to that. I believe that if we were to do this again I would play the music quietly so that maybe this wouldn't be her main focus, and because she had it so loud it was all she could hear and thinking about, so turning the music down would focus her attention on the task at hand.

We then looked at goal setting and she said that this helped her improve her sporting performance because every time she trained or performed she was aiming for something, she felt rewarded once she had completed a goal so this therefore increased her motivation, she also felt as though all of the goal were sport specific so she could've easily relate them back into her sport and could do them in her own time, this also meant that she easily understood every goal and she wasn't having to ask for help on what she was doing because she didn't understand it. She said one of the down sides to goal setting when I first set goals they were really good because they weren't complicated, but then when I did goal setting again I chose the same goal but made them more advanced and she found this boring and fatigue which luckily didn't decrease her motivation as she wanted to complete the goals.