• Explain How Social Factors Affect Your Performance?

There are many social factors that can affect your performance, for example, A coach can affect your performance, every coach coaches in their own style and technique and some styles may benefit some performers more than others. Therefore, it is important to find a coach that works best for you.Finding a coach that suits you better could mean a huge improvement in your performance. Another social factor that can affect your performance are friends, friends can also affect your performance as you might be more motivated to go to training if you have your friends there. It can make a hard set a lot more fun and easier to complete. This will help you improve your performance as you will train more and also make you train harder. Then there are parents, parents can affect your performance because they can become over-involved, Provide wrong coaching advice
and put too much pressure on winning and success. No matter what standard of competition the performer is taking part in, they should always be enjoying their sport. Additional pressure can take away this enjoyment and be detrimental to their performance.
However, parents can also be beneficial to the performance of the athlete as they provide emotional support. This gives the athlete more motivation as they feel that they have some extra support in the crowd at it also gives them someone to talk to about any ups and downs in their performance. Facilities may also be crucial to your performance as better facilities help you do better for example, if you are swimming in a pool with no diving blocks or touch pads, you are definitely going to swim a slower time than what you swim in an olympic pool which all the proper equipment such as, diving blocks, touch pads, wave breaker lane ropes ext. These aren't the only factors that can affect your performance there is also the environment and the weather and both of these can affect your performance either positively or negatively. For example rain can stop you swimming if it is an outdoor pool and then maybe when it stops and the event continues you might not be as well prepped for the race which leads to a downfall in your
performance. Technology can also make a change in your performance as the use of technology in sport is increasing with the use of better equipment and video and computer technology for technique analysis, and with the technique analysis you could look at your technique more closely and then understand better what you need to change and what you don't need to change. Lastly, other player can also affect your performance because you might be more motivated to complete and train if your goal is to beat you opponents. Therefore, having opponents can be very beneficial your performance. Lastly, officials can affect your performance as a poor decision from an official could disqualify you meaning that you wont know your result and you might face more nerves and anxiety the next time you compete, which could definitely be detrimental to your performance.