Professor Nicola Hodges - Using a Challenge Based Coaching Framework
The Coach Doctor Podcast
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The Challenge Point and the Importance of Challenge Points in Coaching
If something is too easy, it's athletes going to lack motivation because it's too easy. Unless what you're doing is sort of mimicking in some way what will be needed when you test that individual under competition scenarios or in match play, then the difficulties are meaningless. You can increase the challenge of the task by making people perform the action really fast. Now that may actually have some other consequences of bringing new information into the environment, but that you wouldn't want to keep practicing at that level of difficulty. It's just not a difficulty that's meaningful to what would be required in transfer. So we've got to get that appropriate communication and that sort of effective informational balance.
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