Professor Nicola Hodges - Using a Challenge Based Coaching Framework
The Coach Doctor Podcast
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How to Manipulate Difficulty in Practice
Within the challenge framework, you refer to nominal, nominal difficulty and functional difficulty. Functional difficulty is difficulty based on the individual. So what may be difficult for me in something like figure skating is also going to be very different to somebody who is expert at figure skating or has more experience and skill. And of course, it's quite easy to manipulate difficulty for novice and challenge because there's so much that's going to be difficult and challenging and bring new information. But at the elite levels, then this idea of trying to get new information and challenge is, is, really quite hard, I think, to conceptualize how they can be brought into practice as people become more skilled.
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