
#220 Kevin Smith, Dr Con Burns & Dr Ed Coughlan - Examining a New Approach to Coaching
The Sport Psych Show
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The Importance of Constraints in Coaching
Theory of implicit learning theory is that if i constrain a task in my session design then I may change behavior as a consequence. Human beings are incredibly interactive people and we're constantly engaging with the environment around us but when we went into a sporting environment what tend to happen is we felt the need to over control, he says. Kevin: There's so many things that we can manipulate in the sporting environment and when we manipulate one we change the environment either either in a small way or a large way depending on how heavily we manipulate it.
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