UK Coaching Podcasts

Podcast with Tyler Yearby discussing how and why we need to think about skill acquisition for strength and conditioning and not just for movement coordination and on the field practice. Yearby is co-director of education at Emergence, a sport movement, skill and education company. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Doug Lemov, author of 'Teach Like a Champion' and 'The Coach's Guide to Teaching', talks about effective coaching. Lemov shares his expertise with UK Coaching Coach Programme and Pathway Manager Tom Hartley on practice design for learning, effective feedback, observation and a wide range of other topics relating to coaching practice. When listening to this podcast, consider what this would mean for your practice as a coach, and someone who creates learning environments for other coaches? Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Dr James Rudd, researcher and practitioner in physical literacy, and Jiani Ma, a PhD student researching the application of fundamental movement skills into practice. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

In this Coach Developer Podcast, Dr Peter Olusoga discusses the importance of coach self-care. The chartered psychologist, senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and host of the Eighty Percent Mental podcast, which looks at the mental side of sport performance, outlines the key elements of a self-care first aid kit, including self-awareness, self-compassion and vulnerability. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies shares a conversation with Lesley McKenna, a 3 x Olympic snowboarder and programme manager at GB Snowsport. With climbing and skateboarding debuting at the Tokyo Olympic Games, McKenna explores the impact becoming an 'Olympic sport' will have on the coaches and coach development workforce. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies speaks with skill acquisition specialist, co-founder of Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland and Senior Lecturer at Munster Technological University Dr Ed Coughlan. In the discussion, Dr Coughlan reveals how to design coaching sessions to help participants and athletes retain learning - before it's then transferred to a performance environment. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Conversation with Language of Coaching author and Head of Athletic Performance at the Irish Rugby Football Union Nick Winkelman. In this podcast, Nick introduces the power of language to support skill acquisition and provides loads of practical examples for coaches to get their teeth stuck into. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Learning Scientist Megan Sumeracki joins Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley and Modern Learning Officer Mark Scott to talk about the principles of effective learning. In this hour long podcast, we explore retrieval practice, spaced learning and interleaving, and consider what these mean for coaches looking to maximise their practice design and experience for their athletes. Head to ukcoaching.org to access a visual guide to help you make sense of these learning principles and consider how you might apply them in your own practice as a coach or coach developer. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Dr James Stafford, who works at neurotechnology company INCISIV as a business development lead, about how perception and action are constantly being calibrated. This podcast explores how we calibrate our movement and how coaches can support skill development and (re)calibration especially during periods of growth, development, aging, time off and injury. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Kirk Vallis, Head of Creative Capability at Google shares with us his principles for creative problem-solving. In this discussion, Kirk shares five scenarios with UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley that people who support coaches might encounter and explores a range of ways for creating "one more option". Head to ukcoaching.org to access a complementary graphic to help you navigate the conversation and consider how some of Kirk's principles might play out in your own environment. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.