In our efforts to assist IFS students to become the best footballers they can be, we are continually looking at research and implementing world’s best practice in our program.
After many months of collating information, gathered through fitness agility testing and the data we collect from set weekly tasks, we have rolled out the “Performance Model” (PM) website. This site provides every student at IFS with their own personal page to log onto and view results of the various information. It also includes the resources and data to assist the student in devising ways to improve where needed.
We are very proud to be able to offer this to our students and grateful to Matthew O’Neill who has worked tirelessly to get everything up and running.
Each week, our training groups are given a weekly task. One of this week’s tasks was a multiple choice series of questions sourced from an Elite Athlete Self Description questionnaire used extensively at the Australian Institute of Sport to assess various components of the elite athlete self-concept. Given that overall performance by elite athletes is a function of skill levels, body suitability, physiological (aerobic and anaerobic) competence, and mental competence, the students’ answers to this questionnaire enable us to determine particular areas to target.
It is important that we are able to gather this information digitally as the answers from each student are automatically collated and presented in graph form. This reduces hours spent on data entry and ultimately permits fast analysis.
I have included a sample questionnaire that you are able to complete yourself. I’ve changed the questions to suit the reader of course, however it is very similar to the weekly tasks set by the coaches.
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I have also included a link to the PM (Performance Model) website and encourage you to take a look at it. It’s a fantastic resource for our students and we hope they utilise it extensively to their advantage. Please click on the various arrows to view the information.
http://pm.ccsc.nsw.edu.au/athletes/athlete-template/
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