Design the Attention: What Coaches Need to Know About External Focus
Internal versus external focus: the trap of well-meant advice, Bernstein's degrees-of-freedom problem, and how to design your cues.
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Attention Is a Limited Cognitive Resource
Attention as a finite resource: five problems caused by running it dry, and what leads to wasting it.
Read →The Two Pillars That Spark Intrinsic Motivation
Two switches that light the engine: enhanced expectancies and autonomy support, with concrete approaches you can use in the gym.
Read →The Science of Intrinsic Motivation: Learners Who Drive Themselves
Motivation is the engine of the learner's "car." What intrinsic motivation really is, and where extrinsic motivation runs out.
Read →OPTIMAL Theory: Accelerating Motor Learning
Where the information-processing models fall short, and an overview of OPTIMAL theory, a new paradigm for optimizing learning.
Read →A System, Yes, but a Complex One
Simple systems like a clock, and complex systems like volleyball. Why changing one player rewrites the interactions wholesale.
Read →What Is Systems Thinking, the Foundation for Understanding TP?
Systems thinking underpins tactical periodization: treating relationships, not individuals, as the smallest unit, and why one substitution …
Read →Reductionism and Its Limits
The starting point for understanding tactical periodization: the idea that the whole is the sum of its parts, and where it breaks down in …
Read →More than Stats: Beyond the Numbers
What is an analyst really for? An opening note on a sandbox for thinking about what lies beyond the stats.
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