Coaching Matters, a round-up of the articles I have found interesting in the past week relating to coaching, sport science, physical preparation and skill acquisition.
I’ll take Tommy over any Navy Seal or Gary Vaynerchuk wannabes. In my humble opinion a Flaneur makes for a better Coach than a Sergeant Major.
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Top 5
- Playing is not coaching: why so many sporting greats struggle as coaches
- Cognitive Load Theory – “the single most important thing for teachers to know”
- Pacey Performance Podcast: Ben Jones
- A Cascade of Sand: Complex Systems in a Complex Time
- The PE Playbook – January 2017 Edition
General Sports/Coaching
- Gabby Logan meets Richie McCaw
- What works in coach learning, how, and for whom? A grounded process of soccer coaches’ professional learning
- Does UK Sport’s funding work? How many medals do Team GB really need?
- Experts And Gurus: What’s The Difference?
- GAINcast Episode 47: The Art of Coaching with Harry Marra, Ashton Eaton’s Coach
- What does the England DNA mean to a grassroots coach?
- Player Development Project: Coaching in the Grey
- Rugby Coach’s Corner: Wade Gilbert, Coaching Better Every Season
- The Brain Always Wins: The Illusion of Mental Toughness
- My Fastest Mile: Innovation – Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
- Informed in Sport: Defining ‘Elite’ in Sport
“Better people make better rugby players…”
We dig beneath the surface with @BUCSSuperRugby outfit @LeedsBeckettRFC… pic.twitter.com/Uxs57A5agI
— England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) February 7, 2017
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- Perception Action Podcast: Interview with Dave Collins, Institute of Coaching & Performance, UCLAN
- Brian McCormick: Making practices game-like and training skills
- Game Sense Research in Coaching: Findings and Reflections
- A Cascade of Sand: Complex Systems in a Complex Time
24 hours with the U20s 🌹
A day in the life of the future stars of English rugby… pic.twitter.com/vC4huBXA02— England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) February 7, 2017
Physical Preparation
- The Secret to Running a Faster Marathon? Slow Down
- Simplifaster: Speed Training with Coach and Researcher Jake Schuster
Sport Science
- Psychological States underlying Excellent Performance: “Letting it Happen vs Making it Happen”
- Strength of Science Audio Abstract: Coaching Sprinting – Expert Coaches’ Perception of Resistance Based Training
- Pacey Performance Podcast: Ben Jones
- Athlete Monitoring & Frequency of Feedback by Mark Langley
Researchers from #UWA Centre for Sleep Science assist @westernforce #rugby team with the effects of long-distance travel #sleepscience pic.twitter.com/27WD3b2QMN
— Science at UWA (@ScienceUWA) February 6, 2017
Productivity/Business
Miscellaneous
- Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter
- Trump is no fascist. He is a champion for the forgotten millions
- There must be free speech, even for Milo Yiannopoulos
- The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump
- Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix
- Eating Toward Immortality
- The Economist: Nullius in verba – A crash course in understanding numbers
- You Default to the Easiest Path, Not the Most Enjoyable One
- Cognitive Overhead is Your Product’s Overlord — Topple it With These Tips
- An Irishman Abroad: Chris O’Dowd
