The effect of instructional video use on performance enhancement in the high school track athlete

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of instructional videos and their impact on performance enhancement on high school track athletes.; Method. Participants included 18 (9 males and 9 females) track athletes ages 14-18 (15.94+/-1.51) from southwestern Pennsylvania. Participants were split into an experimental group (n = 10) and a control group (n = 8). Both groups participated in a pretest in the 40 and 100 yard sprint. The mean of both groups was taken for both groups. Once completed the experimental group took part in a 6 week intervention which included watching three instructional videos and practicing the skills. Once finished with the intervention both groups participated in a post test in both the 40 and 100 yard sprint. Once again means were taken for both the experimental and control groups. The data was analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA to determine the significance of the sprint times. Alpha level was set at .05 for this study.; Conclusions. Since only a significant affect was found with the 100 yard sprint, it was found that the instructional video intervention was only helpful with reducing the sprint times in the 100 yard sprint and not the 40 yard sprint.