Week 5

This is the practice phase; 
This session lasted an hour and a half and took place in my office. This gave myself and the athlete enough time to make a playlist to listen to prior training. The psychological strategy that was used was music in sport. 

I gave the athlete a worksheet that listed numbers 1-10 and asked them to fill it in with their favourite songs. 

Music in Sport Name of Song Song Duration 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	This table allows the athlete up to 10 songs, this is important as the playlist needed to be roughly 30 mins to listen to whilst training.  I also asked the client to fill in the song duration so that we could add up how long the playlist lasted.  I chose the activity to fill in the sheet so that the athlete can fill in the sheet them-self and see what songs they had chose. This then makes it easier if the songs they chose didn't benefit them during training they can easily change it or swap it for another song.  This benefits the athlete as they are able to look at the variety of music that they have chosen and can therefore look at the different genres and song durations which makes it easier to adapt.  After we completed the table the athlete then created the playlist on their phone to so that they could listen to it in the evenings training session. This enabled the athlete to decide if the playlist was suitable to them and in fact increased motivation or not.