activity analysis

• Activity Analysis


  Recording and analysis of movement and skill data from a game, sport or activity
• Main purpose of an Activity Analysis

  Determine how that particular performance can be improved
• Games Analysis


  Another name for Activity Analysis
• Steps in Activity Analysis

  1. Conduct Activity Analysis

  2. Select and Complete relevant Pre-Fitness Testing

  3. Design a Training Program

  4. Undertake Training Program

  5. Complete relevant Post-Fitness Testing

  6. Complete Evaluation of Training Program
• Team sports and individual sports of an intermittent nature are most suited to activity analysis
• Examples of sports suited to activity analysis

  • Netball
  • Volleyball
  • Hockey
  • Squash
• Analysis of continuous activities is more limited to the measurement of heart rates and intensities
• Elite athletes are often the ideal subjects for activity analysis
• Benefits of games analysis

  • Mental Benefits
  • Technical Benefits
  • Tactical Benefits
  • Physical Benefits
• Physiological requirements crucial to performance and recovery

  • Energy system requirements
  • Work-to-rest patterns and ratios
  • Distances and speed travelled
  • Intensities of the movements and actions
  • Major muscle groups used
  • Factors associated with fatigue
  • Skills required
• Data collection is the process of gathering the information required
• Data Collection Methods


  Observation<|>With and without the use of technology
• Direct Viewing Analysis


  Most commonly used in schools and universities
• Direct Viewing Analysis


  Involves collection of subjective information
• There are no supportive data for observed information in Direct Viewing Analysis
• Digital Recording


  Statistical data can be recorded live and analysed immediately
• Digital Recording


  Use of video is the preferred method to record data
• Many elite teams now have access to programs that allow for immediate analysis of digital recording
• There are four main components of an activity analysis
• Components of an Activity Analysis

  • Skills Analysis
  • Movement Pattern Analysis
  • Work-to-rest ratios
  • Heart Rate Telemetry
• Skills Frequency


  Involves counting the number of skills performed in a game
• Skills Frequency Chart


  Used to log skills performed in a game
• Skills Analysis


  Used to identify major muscle group and muscle actions used
• A skill frequency table showing a high percentage of leaps or jumps suggests the fitness component of muscular power
• Movement Pattern Analysis


  Involves charting a player's movements throughout a game
• Movement pattern analysis is usually performed over at least 20 minutes
• Methods of completing a movement pattern analysis

  • Manual movement pattern grid
  • Using technology
• Work-to-rest ratios


  Describe the relative contribution of the interplay between energy systems
• Work-to-rest ratios compare the total amount of time an athlete spends working to the total amount of time spent resting
• A heart rate telemeter provides data on a participant’s heart-rate response to physical activity
• Heart rate is typically used to estimate physical activity as energy expenditure