The athletes how I will be training are in professional football teams with big reputations and it is my job to get these players at their best in only two weeks.
The first player is Kasim Zafeer and he is a strong and tall centre-half but his pace and
stamina is what I will be trying to improve. His age is 21. I will make him do a series of fitness tests to see what level he is on now and after the two weeks he will do them again and then I will compare the results and see weather there is an improvement. I know that the improvement will not be huge because the time limit is very short but my aim is to have some effect.
The first fitness test was the beep test and Kasim achieved level 13.9 which is below the average level for a professional footballer.
I also tested him on the 12 minute run around a football pitch and Kasim got 11 laps which is just a bit below the average of a footballer.
I also tested kasim on the shuttle run and he just achieved average level .
He was also put through his paces on the agility test and he managed to complete the circuit in 15.5 seconds.
This is an table of his results;-
Test name
level
Above average or below
New results
Beep test
13.9
Below average
14.0
12 minute run
11 laps
Below average
11
Shuttle run
14
average
14
Agility test
15 .5 seconds
average
15.6 seconds
This is what I told kasim to do;-
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Morning
Afternoon
Monday
Did fartlek training
Football match- with rule -no stopping
Tuesday
Did 24 minute run
Did 10 agility test
Wednesday
Shuttle run
40 minute jog
Thursday
Football match- with rule -no stopping
Did fartlek training
Friday
Sprinting for 100 metres
Did 800 metre run
Saturday
Shuttle run
40 minute jog
As the table shows there is a slight improvement in Kasim’s performances. There is only a small differences but I didn’t expect there
