The Perception & Action Podcast

453 – On the Coach’s Role in the CLA

Jul 11, 2023

15:58

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Exploring the responsibilities of a coach within the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA), focusing on constraint manipulations, adaptability, and verbal instruction. The coach's role in the CLA is to shape constraints to improve the learner's capabilities. Coaching involves exploratory behavior, observational skills, and guiding athletes' attention. Strategic instruction from a coach affects performance in small-sided football games, highlighting the influence of guidance on team dynamics.

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The coach's role in the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) includes adapting and understanding individualization of constraints for each athlete, shaping constraints to improve performance in different contexts.

The use of explicit verbal instructions in the CLA is crucial for guiding attention, promoting changes in interpersonal relationships, and influencing technical, tactical, and physical aspects of players and teams in small-sided football games.

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The Role of the Coach in the Constraints-Led Approach

The podcast explores the role of the coach in the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA). While the CLA emphasizes self-organization and constraint manipulation, the coach's role is more than just designing constraints and stepping back. The coach needs to adapt and understand individualization of constraints for each athlete. The coach acts as a facilitator, manipulating constraints to encourage exploratory learning and variability. The coach's role is to shape constraints to improve the athlete's performance in different contexts.

Brief overview of CLA and Ecological Dynamics

01:00

Introduction

2min

The Role of the Coach in Constraint-Led Approach (CLA)

5min

The Role of the Coach as a Constraint Manipulator

3min

The Role of Coaching and Exploratory Behavior in the Constraint-Led Approach

3min

The Impact of Coach's Strategic Instruction on Performance in Small-Sided Games

3min

A look at a couple of papers on a coach’s role within the constraints-led approach (CLA)? Is the role of coach in the CLA simply to design constraints manipulations and get out of the way or is there more to it than that? Does a coach need to adapt too? What is the role of verbal instruction in the CLA?

Articles:

Learning to be adaptive as a distributed process across the coach–athlete system: situating the coach in the constraints-led approach The Influence of Coaches’ Instruction on Technical Actions, Tactical Behaviour, and External Workload in Football Small-Sided Games

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