The Adaptable Athlete Podcast

Exploring The Athletic Skills Model w/ Martina Navarro

Jun 19, 2024

Martina Navarro, a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and former Olympic Taekwondo competitor, dives into the Athletic Skills Model, a holistic approach to athlete development. She shares insights on how diverse movement experiences benefit long-term athletic growth, challenging the notion of sport-specific training. Martina highlights her own transitions from elite sport to academia, discusses injury challenges, and emphasizes the art of transferring skills across various sports. Coaches are encouraged to adopt adaptable methodologies for fostering versatile athletes.

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Coaches limiting athletes to specific movements restrict their exposure, while embracing varied movements enhances overall performance and adaptability.

The Athletic Skills Model promotes holistic movement education by emphasizing diverse experiences instead of solely focusing on sport-specific skills.

Incorporating novel movements into training alleviates performance pressure, fostering creativity and enhancing athletes' problem-solving abilities across different sports.

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Guidance for Coaches on Movement Exploration

Coaches often become too focused on the specific movements within their discipline, limiting their athletes' exposure to a broader range of movement experiences. By embracing a mindset that encourages exploring various movements, coaches can adapt training practices to incorporate different modalities. This approach fosters a wider understanding of movement patterns, which can enhance an athlete's overall performance. Ultimately, broadening the repertoire of movements allows athletes to be more versatile and adaptable in their sports.

Intro

3min

From Taekwondo to Academia

9min

Navigating Injury and Career Choices in Taekwondo

2min

Transferring Skills Across Sports

18min

Unpacking the Fundamental 10 Movements for Coaches

5min

Evolving Athletic Skills Training

20min

Contrasting Climates and Cherished Water Sports

3min

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My guest for today’s episode is Dr. Martina Navarro. Martina is a native of Brazil and a senior lecture at the university of Portsmouth in the UK. She received her undergrad from the university of São Paulo in Brazil and her PhD from São Paulo and the university of Amsterdam in Netherlands.

Her PhD focused on effects of strategies and high levels of stress and anxiety and human cognition and motor control

She has also done post doctorate work in , Switzerland was awarded the excellence, doctoral research fellowship by the Swiss government and subsequently joined the Institute of sports science at the university of Bern

She is also the UK head of the athletic skills model a framework that offers an alternative perspective to talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education. More on this later.

Martina was also a high-level Taekwondo practitioner and competed at the Olympic level. Both her and I share a background in Taekwondo admittedly she competed at a much higher level than I did.

In this conversation, we do touch on her background and Taekwondo, but we also go into what the athletic skills model is, and how coaches can apply some of their frameworks to training and practice,

Athletes are often told to spend more and more hours training in their sport, but the athletic skills model provides a different way of looking at long-term athletic development. Emphasizing a variety of movements and movement experiences. We get into all this and so much more.

One quick note before we get started, you may have seen on social media that we had emergence have announced the dates for the 2024 Sport Movement Skill Conference. This is a hybrid online and in person event and is my favorite event of the year. You have the option of attending for the lectures, the in person coaching or both. It’s completely up to you

Right now, we are offering our early bird pricing so I would highly suggest you mark tour calendar for October 4th and 5th and take advantage of this sale!

If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com

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The Adaptable Athlete Podcast

Exploring The Athletic Skills Model w/ Martina Navarro

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Guidance for Coaches on Movement Exploration

The Athletic Skills Model Overview

Fundamental Movements and Their Application

The Importance of Exploration in Training

Challenges of Early Specialization in Sports

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts