Assignment Instructions
This assignment is to help you develop your course paper. For your final course paper you will be training a specific elite athlete.
(Athlete’s must be 18 or older (exceptions are only made if the athlete is an elite international athlete such as a gymnast or Olympic level athlete competing on an international level), an elite athlete in their sport, and able to progress with adult level loads, intensity, and volume in resistance and sport specific skill training.
For this assignment, you will introduce and develop testing protocol for your specific athlete. (See green type below the rubric for Final Project Protocol)
You need to write a short paper (2-5 pages) providing details about the athlete you will be training.
You need to include things such as height, weight, gender, age, sport, position played (if applicable), level of play and any other important information (Specific initial periodization plan/model example).
You need to determine which pre-tests (including components of fitness – Cardiorespritory, Body Composition, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Flexibility, and sport specific skills of the athlete, his or her sport, experience, age, gender, height, and weight) you would have this athlete perform before developing a program for him/her. When selecting tests, make sure they are testing for the information you need. For example, do not perform the vertical jump if this does not help you develop a program. In other words, do not do testing just to do testing, make sure it is for a reason and you will need to state why you selected each test for this athlete.
This paper is to be submitted in APA format. Please be sure to included all rules of APA formatting. Your paper should contain at the least:
