Touch Football Analysis

Report on the role energy systems play when selecting tactics and strategies for touch.

1.0 INTRODUCTION
Touch is a high impact team sport, which is exciting to watch and vigorous at all levels. Because of this, and touch being the selected sport in Term three, students have been asked to do an analysis of touch football and the role the three energy systems play when selecting tactics and strategies to be used in play.


1.1 PRELIMINARIES
Data must be recorded before the report can be completed. This data will then be analysed.
Protocol One
Four students were fitted with heart rate monitors to record their heart rate while they played a game of touch. The students played for fifteen minutes in the Wing positions then came off for a further ten minutes. After this, the four students played the Middle positions for a further fifteen minutes. Once completed, the students had to wait until their heart rate was at a resting rate before recording could be stopped.

Protocol Two
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