EPISODE · Dec 8, 2022 · 34 MIN
SPECIFICITY AND VARIABILITY - Motor Learning For Coaches
from Coach Your Brains Out · host Gold Medal Squared
1:26 - Checking up on Harjiv: with the start of the NBA season, how has he been doing?3:07 - What is “specificity” in relation to motor learning and practice design?6:43 - Why should the specificity of practice and the specificity of movement be separated from each other?10:16 - Defining variability and describing its benefits.11:22 - Attributing specificity of practice as the “what” and the specificity of movement as the “how”.13:09 - How do variation and specificity relate to each other?14:38 - How does specificity and variation fit into volleyball given how chaotic it is?17:00 - How does Kasey interact with the chaos of volleyball?19:40 - Can we be specific while also having changes in variability?25:48 - What is the thought process behind increasing and decreasing variability within the baseball setting?27:18 - Are there instances where some kinds of variability may be more or less effective than others?31:09 - One large and implementable takeaway from this episode.Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching VolleyballThe Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a ChampionBecome a Patron to support the show.
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Motor Learning for Coaches with John Mayer, Andy Bass, Harjiv Singh, and Kasey Crider.
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