Coach Your Brains Out

ACTION CAPACITY - Motor Learning for Coaches

May 11, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Shifting Training to Embrace Failure

  • Casey Crider shares how his team shifted their training to promote exploration and healthy failure rates.
  • This approach helped the UMBC volleyball team improve and experience better performance even outside direct coaching observation.
ANECDOTE

Measuring Impact Through Game Performance

  • Rob Nelson describes how his success with Wofford baseball's base stealing ability reflected his impact as a strength coach.
  • He measures impact by how performance improves in game actions, not by gym metrics like squat weight.
INSIGHT

Understanding Action Capacity

  • Action capacities refer to how well an athlete's body can interact with the environment to complete tasks.
  • Athletes with higher action capacities have more affordances, meaning more effective options during gameplay.
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