Week 6

This was the final meeting during the 6 week period. This session took place in the clients home as the original session took place. The session was just me and the client as it was only to discuss the previous weeks. It lasted around 30 minutes. The outcome of the meeting was to talk about what went well and what needed to be improved. After the interview the client mentioned a few things; 

• During the first week I didn't feel as though this programme was going to benefit me because of my lack of knowledge in the different areas. I didn't realise that setting goals could actually benefit my sport as it seemed a lot of work prior to this in order to set up a goal. 
• Setting goals I feel benefited my sport the most and made me feel more motivated 
• Watching videos really helped me to understand the different methods, especially filling in worksheets alongside 
• Having the meetings in my house made me feel at ease and felt like I could talk about anything and feel comfortable. 
• I feel like I have the ability to set my goals myself now and create new music playlist to ensure that I don't get bored of the original one. 

The athlete felt like they had improved from week 1 - 6 after trying out the new techniques. Goal setting gave them the motivation that they lacked, allowing them to believe in them-self that they are able to achieve goals that they thought they couldn't before. I can tell the the athlete has improved due to looking back at the questionnaire that they filled in in the consultation; 

Compared to the questionnaire completed in the review; 

Comparing the two questionnaires the second one shows that the athlete felt more comfortable in every aspect of their sport whilst filling it out looking on the answers, whereas if you look back at the first questionnaire the athlete filled in it shows that they were not very confident in their sport. The athlete was bothered about their family/coach not approving with their sports performance within the first questionnaire whereas in the second one it shows that they are not bothered by this and it also says that they are only somewhat nervous before a competition. This is important to see as it shows that the athlete has improved within their sport and also in themselves. From a psychologists point of view it is necessary to know that goal setting and music in sport both increase confidence and motivation in an athlete, which can be seen in the questionnaires. 

Recommendations include different things throughout the weeks such as;

• Making more than one goal as the athlete progresses achieving the build up goals. This prevents them from getting bored and ensures an increase in motivation levels. 
• Use BPM finders to search for different music with different beats per minute to get the athlete ready for different types of competitions and putting them in different moods. 
• The client should also you self talk in the future as this is easy and simple to do and doesn't involve and preparation whereas goal setting and music in sport. I suggested that they watch a video of Floyd May-weather who uses self talk for himself and to intimidate his opponent before a boxing match.