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Programme Design & Periodisation is a process of rigorous, comprehensive and continuous planning for sporting success.
Targeting key events in training and competition, we match training programmes with performance objectives. Our philosophy is one of continuous improvement.
Having identified key events and their relevant performance targets, we analyse what needs to happen physically, tactically and psychologically to meet these goals.
We can then plan the processes and support to be put in place for each athlete and sports programme.
We also formulate the monitoring needs required to measure impact and build a team of experts around the athletes, led by the coach, to achieve this.
At the end of each cycle, we review the performance of each athlete and sports programme to determine what has worked, what we could enhance and also what hasn't worked, so we can discard it.
And so the cycle of continuous performance improvement continues.
FUNDING FACTS
We are a member of the sportscotland group and are funded by sportscotland Lottery Fund, which awarded us £16.06m for the four years to March 2007.
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Since 1998, Institute-supported athletes have achieved 12 World Champions, 2 Olympic Gold medals, 4 Olympic Silver medals and many more.
