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Writing a Personal Exercise Programme (PEP) - EdexcelHow to complete the Personal Fitness Programme

Athletes use a personal exercise programme (PEP) to ensure their training develops the specific skills and fitness they require for their sport. This is designed to suit their individual needs.

Part of Physical EducationPerformance analysis

How to complete a Personal Exercise Programme (PEP)

A PEP is designed to meet the specific needs of an individual athlete. Typically it includes:

Introduction

  • aim 鈥 the general skills or fitness you plan to improve for which sport and why
  • profile of who the PEP is for 鈥 age, sex, performance level, experience
  • brief overview of training programme 鈥 duration, frequency and type
  • how you will show progress 鈥 the tests and measures you will use

Baseline tests

  • summary of tests used to measure current skill and fitness components
  • test results

Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses

From the test results, a summary of:

  • strengths
  • areas to improve

Priority areas for this PEP

  • specify the skill and/or fitness components to be improved
  • set a SMART target for each component: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound

See Target setting to find out more about SMART targets.

Training plan

Details of training plan related to the principles of training:

  • warm-ups and cool-downs
  • SPORRT: specificity, progression, overload, reversibility, rest and recovery, tedium
  • FITT: frequency, intensity, time, type

Safety

  • safety issues to consider

Results

  • results following the repeat of baseline tests

Evaluation

  • effectiveness of the training programme in improving the specified components
  • how to maintain, extend or improve the training programme

For support in writing a PEP, see Principles of training.