Case Study Beth Tweddle

Foundation Degree Sports Coaching

|Assessment Title: |Written Case Study |
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|Module Title: |Human Performance |
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Throughout any athletes training programmes test and adaptations will be made to show improvements within any sport. There are 2 types of gymnastics artistic and rhythmic, within Artistic Gymnastics there are 3 events in which males and females compete in with 4-6 different apparatus to complete within the event (Amy Van Deusen, 2011). Artistic Gymnastics is a highly skilled sport that requires high levels of conditioning; this means there are a lot of physiological demands associated with the sport’ (Claessenset et al., 1999). Beth Tweddle is a well-known Artistic Gymnast, she is Britain’s greatest ever-female gymnast, and Beth’s impressive achievements include being an Olympic Bronze Medallist, a triple World Champion, a six-time European Champion, a Commonwealth Champion and seven-time consecutive National Champion (Sports Partnerships, 2013). As Beth is an Artistic Gymnast there will be lots of different physiological demands she goes through throughout her training programme, as she doesn’t just concentrate on one apparatus she does all 4 which are demanding in