Boxing athlete

Introduction In sports, it is of great importance to create an individual training plan for each athlete. For example, the goals and training plans are defined for a year, quarter, months or for the immediate competition preparation. For this purpose, it must be specified exactly on which days which training units are to be performed. For the trainers, however, this is not an easy task to recognize in advance which exercises are necessary to improve performance. It is the experience and the gut feeling that are decisive for this. At the moment, unfortunately, the reasons for the successes and failures are often analyzed only after the boxing matches.

Problem definition

In almost all sports, an individual training plan is crucial to an athlete's success. The same is the case in boxing, where it is difficult to work out an athlete's strengths and weaknesses and plan the right training based on them. Often, it is unclear what impact the various conditioning skills have on a boxer's performance. However, it is of great advantage to test this in a simulation in order to be able to determine the training sessions. By this way, it should be possible to specify the current performance parameters for each individual athlete in advance and to simulate the effects on his performance by changing this parameters.

Method

In order to analyze the performance of a boxer, a model was created in VensimPLE, which can be filled with individual parameters to run a simulation. The effects of the conditional skills as well as the injury rate on the overall performance are given accordingly in equations. The thresholds and weights have been determined based on existing research on sports studies.

Model

The stack and flow model represents the conditional and technical/tactical abilities of a boxer based on various performance parameters. The athlete's performance is dependent on the conditional skills and the gained competition experience. The injury rate leads to a loss of performance. The quality of the athlete together with the quality of the coaches determine the level of competitive performance, which includes technical and tactical skills.