Continuous Assessment During Personal Training

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Why do you need continuous assessment during personal training?

 

From the view of practical training situations, there are many factors that affect the implementation of training plan. For example, you’re going to train the chest, but you accidentally strained your shoulders yesterday. So it is obviously not suitable to continue the chest training plan. Other factors like old joint injury, depression, jet lag will also affect your plan as well. If these conditions cannot be timely assessed, then the efficiency of training will be probably low. Therefore, continuous assessment is a vanguard of efficient training. It is also a sign of professional service because no one wants to get injured or waste time in training.

 

In short, continuous assessment can be divided into periodic assessment and real-time assessment.

 

For periodic assessment, we’re all familiar with it. And this article will more focus on real-time assessment.

 

What is real-time assessment?

 

Real-time assessment means continuously evaluating a trainee’s status during training and then adjusting the content and amount of training at any time. If he is not in a position to fit into training plan, it is of great importance to adjust the training plan immediately rather than reluctantly complete it.

 

Real-time assessment can be divided into three parts: pre-training, in-training and post-training assessment.

 

Pre-training Assessment

 

  1. To know a trainee’s sleep quality of last night;
  2. The body weight, static heart rate in the morning; 
  3. What and when does he eat breakfast?
  4. Feedback of his state and mood; 
  5. Body state after the last training.

 

All the information can be basically evaluated through simple communication. 

 

In-training Assessment

 

  1. Pay attention to a trainee’s body flexibility, stability and athletic performance in the process of warm-up;
  2. How well he can perform during formal training. And his body state (heart rate, sweat, blood oxygen saturation and his self feedback);
  3. Body language, facial expression, percentage of heart rate recovery when in a break;
  4. His emotional state, language expression and change of his posture after the increase of intensity of training.

 

Post-training assessment

 

  1. Self-evaluation and feeling feedback of a trainee on the day;
  2. Analyzing his training data and performance;
  3. Tests basic physical data;
  4. Collect physical feeling feedback and basic data on the next day.

 

Accurate assessment is the symbol of professional training and good service. Real-time assessment should be throughout the entire training cycle. In this way, coach is able to provide the most suitable training plan for a trainee.

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