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The Perception & Action Podcast

88 – The Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching II: Dynamics & Representative Design

Nov 28, 2017
This podcast explores the Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching, discussing principles such as representative design, perception-action loop, and ecological dynamics. It highlights the emergence of coordination through self-organization and the organization of neuromuscular skeletal components. The implications of ecological dynamics models for skill acquisition and practice design are also explored, emphasizing the importance of interaction with the environment and representative design. Retention of functional coupling and action fidelity, as well as developing functional movement patterns in sports, are discussed as key factors in enhancing performance.
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Quick takeaways

  • The Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) emphasizes the role of constraints in shaping and self-organizing an athlete's movement solutions, highlighting the coordination of neuromuscular skeletal components and the analysis of action-relevant perceptual information.
  • The application of dynamical systems theory in understanding coordination and movement emphasizes the continuous influence of changes in effector function and perceptual information, with stable movement solutions and transitions between patterns occurring through attractors and repellers within a dynamical system.

Deep dives

Theoretical underpinnings of the Constraints Led Approach to Coaching

This podcast episode discusses the theoretical foundations of the Constraints Led Approach (CLA) to coaching, with a focus on behavioral and ecological dynamics. The CLA emphasizes the role of constraints, such as perceptual information and action dynamics, in shaping and self-organizing an athlete's movement solutions. The episode explores the Perception-Action Loop, which highlights the mutual interaction between perception and movement. It also delves into the coordination of neuromuscular skeletal components and the analysis of action-relevant perceptual information. Bill Warren's behavioral dynamics model and Keith David's ecological dynamics model are both discussed as approaches to understanding the self-organization and emergence of behavior.

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