Planning
Performance Profiler is the most efficient way to plan with the "big picture" in mind, yet still maintain a daily focus of improving performance. Plan using the simple Diary View for daily to weekly activities, or use a specially designed macro and meso-cycle planner for monthly and yearly planning. You can even use the targets feature to set goals and easily monitor your athlete's actual progress.
The Diary View is activated by dragging and dropping the existing customised data entry forms to a date or time. You can also add new forms to this planner by requesting a new type of form. The periodisation planner is built specifically to your requirements, from the way you structure your yearly plan and break it down into phases through to the type of information you want to be able to plan. This includes games/events/competitions; countries in which the games/events/competitions are played; goals such as maintaining weight or increasing strength; even fitness programme specifics, and the number of sessions per week allocated to training or even recovery. The periodisation plan provides you with the exact information that you need to understand your athlete's year, and this can be easily saved for other athletes, or different years. The hardest part is deciding what you want to include.
As a sports professional, it is easy to get lost in the day-to-day activities that take over your life. The high-level synchronisation between the yearly periodisation planner and the daily schedule ensures your professionals are always mindful of the "big picture." This is crucial when planning for a national or world event, or if you aim to peak your athletes numerous times during the season. The limitation of other periodisation plans is that they only provide a rough guide to the year. They simply can't and don't account for the day-to-day changes an athlete has- sickness, injury or other personal factors. One injury and the plan is outdated! Performance Profiler is different. Because the periodisation tool can be displayed WITH the diary, you can modify daily sessions and the yearly schedule together. This means that your yearly plan always stays relevant and up to the minute, no matter what.
Setting Targets
Targets are used to set minimum and maximum levels for specific variables. These limits are displayed with the actual variables so that you can easily monitor your athlete's progress against their expected progress. For example, you can set minimum and maximum values for skinfolds and then look to see whether the athlete is within the target range. All you have to do is specify the type of information that you want to be able to enter targets for (skinfolds, weight, 10m time, and the like).
