Week Two

Week Two


For week two I decided to do goal setting, I used goal setting so that I was able to set Natalie some challenges, I need to make sure that at least everyday there is a daily goal. There are different types of goals such as process goals, these are the type of goals which focus on technique and practice and is something Natalie will have to do in order to be successful, most of the time this involves breaking down the skills and practicing them in different parts. Performance goals, this is when they are only focusing on how they are going to win, they judge and compare their performance with others. Outcome goals, this is what happens as an end result, such as winning the competition or reaching a different level above recreational, however if you focus too much on this and your performance doesn't turn out as good as you think it will, it then leads to a decline in performance. As well as this I saw that there were different lengths of goals, there's short term and these are the goals which are set daily and weekly, the are used to assess progress. There's then the intermediate goals and these are what short term goals lead up to they are set over a period of months and lead up to a long term goal, this are set in a year.


I decided to set three goals this time as I wanted to make sure they were specific and that she was sticking to them and as this was her first week of training I also needed to make sure that these goals were specific but also basic so that she was sticking to them and also so that she wasn't working too hard and that he motivation wasn't decreasing. The three goals I set were mostly process goals as well as short term goal as I got her working on different parts of her body on different days of a week which all are needed in netball and would improve her performance. The goals included,
1. Complete 20 minutes on the treadmill on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, writing or talking about how you feel afterwards.
2. Fitness, complete 5 sets of 3 reps on Tuesday and Thursday of sit ups, crunches, squats and lunges on the netball court, making sure you are recording what you are doing and you are doing them affectively.
3. Complete 25 over head passes, 25 chest passes, 25 bounce passes, 25 left hand bounce passes, 25 right hand bounce passes, 25 left hand shoulder passes, 25 right hand shoulder passes. This is to be completed twice on Saturday and Sunday on the netball court and should last around 20 minutes every time, as you should be doing this at full intensity.


The reason as to why I set the first goal was because it was focusing on her fitness and this sis something she said she wished to improve on and doing 20 minutes I feel as though this was a long enough period of time to improve her fitness but also not push her too far as it was her first proper week of training and she had to do this 3 times during the week. The second goal I chose to do was down to the fact that it was exercising a different part of her body, this was looking at her core fitness, I did this because it is important for every netball player to be able to improve her core fitness and I needed to involve this within my goals, as this in turn would help improve her fitness as I am working on her abdominals and leg muscles so she will be able to last longer and apply more pressure. Then my third goal was so that she was able to work on her arm muscles and it was related to her sport netball, it was a simple but fun task for her to do and it was straight forward and wasn't time consuming at all.


For goal setting the session lasted around 10-20 minutes and it wasn't mainly just me talking to Natalie about these goal and getting her to decide what she would prefer to work on and do in order to improve her performance and overall fitness.