| Athlete buy-in |
Education |
The data we put in will be more valuable if we understand what the benefits will be and what they are trying to get out of it. (A04) |
1 |
2 |
7 |
11 |
| …some of the value in diaries is collecting them over a long long time…that’s sometimes harder to sell because people want instant gratification for effort (S03) |
| Feedback |
…if they think that no-ones looking at it then they’ll just give dummy responses. (S04) |
6 |
4 |
15 |
88 |
| When introduced |
My thinking is that younger athletes…should be encouraged to be filling in diaries straight away so it becomes the norm not “this is all hard work”. (C03) |
0 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
| Staff buy-in |
SSMS buy-in |
…it’s really necessary to have everyone working with the sport supporting and following the benefits of the system (S12) |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Coach buy-in |
…if it doesn’t have a reinforcement from the coaches [compliance] tends to fall away. (S07) |
4 |
1 |
12 |
24 |
| …within a team sport it is very much a coach-driven thing…then as a dictatorship, the coach can demand that it be done or there be ramifications to the athlete (S14) |
| Key staff-member |
…you do need a couple of key drivers...instilling that everyone’s got some individual obligation (S13) |
3 |
1 |
8 |
19 |
| …because the interpretation of one person to another person could be completely different, so you’ve got to control how [the data] is used and who says what to the athlete (S07) |
| Peer-influence |
|
…people stop [completing their ASRM] and then everyone stops doing it and it stops completely (A03) |
1 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
| Reminders |
|
I do remind them at probably two or three times a week I ask them why they haven’t filled it out (S07) |
1 |
6 |
11 |
24 |
| Reinforcement |
|
…we’ve included both carrot and stick in ways of trying to get them to do it (C06) |
7 |
7 |
12 |
45 |
|
…sometimes the athlete may want to hide something that’s going on,… they might not want the coach to know…or worried they are going to get punished for it (S08) |
| Data security |
|
…some of them feel it reflects an invasiveness in to their privacy (S14) |
1 |
1 |
6 |
11 |
|
…their data is pretty much open to anyone that’s got access, so maybe that is something [to address], the security side so the athletes feel confident that if they really want to write some stuff in there they can. (C03) |
