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.
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great Christmas break and are refreshed and raring to coach again! Not much to talk about personally as I had a good break away from sport and coaching so straight into it this week.
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Top 5
- Science: Best long reads of 2016: Part I | Part II
- In Praise of Ignorance
- Neither Genes nor Deliberate Practice forthcoming – The MIT Handbook of Embodied Cognition and Sport Psychology
- How Bullshitters Not Just Survive But Thrive, Until…
- Nassim Taleb: Inequality and Skin in the Game
General Sports/Coaching
- Mental Conditioning by Paddy Upton
- Coach Stuart McMillan’s Best Books of 2016
- Craig Pickering: What I read in 2016
- John Kiely: Path Dependence
- BBC Sportsweek: Elite Sports Coaching
- The man behind the minds: Ex-Arsenal psychologist on life inside the head of a footballer
- Why Chinese clubs are breaking transfer records – and why players are wise to go
- Are we wasting the players time??
- Doping: Cycling chiefs criticised by anti-doping chief over evidence to parliament
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- What Is Ideal Golf Technique?
- Mark Upton: Constraints & Player Development in Football
- Keep Your Eye on the Balls to Become a Better Athlete
Physical Preparation
- Carl Valle: High-Resolution Programming for Acceleration
- Alex Hutchinson: The High-Fat Diet for Endurance Athletes, in Three Graphs
Sport Science
- This Is the Only Performance Enhancer All Athletes Use: Belief
- The Sport Science Myth by John Weatherly Part I | Part II
- David Meaney: Psychological Ingredients That Can Make The Difference
- Enhance placebo, avoid nocebo: How contextual factors affect physiotherapy outcomes
- The only meaningful exercise to be got from Fitbits is throwing them into the bin
- Is Your Workout Not Working? Maybe You’re a Non-Responder
- Martin Buchheit: Does beetroot juice really improve sprint and high-intensity running performance? – probably not as much as it seems: how (poor) stats can help to tell a nice story
Education
Business/Productivity
- Why time management is ruining our lives
- Information asymmetry: Secrets and agents
- Ethical systems design: what smart leaders are using to improve their organizations (and the world)
- You Can Improve Your Default Response to Stress
Miscellaneous
- Scott Barry Kaufman: One Skeptical Scientist’s Mindfulness Journey
- Albert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna Between Truth and Meaning
- How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail
- For Fact-Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks
- The Problem With ‘Self-Investigation’ in a Post-Truth Era
- Impartial journalism is laudable. But false balance is dangerous
- If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank Obama
- 11 mind-blowing psychology findings that explain the baffling choices you make every day
- 13 more mind-blowing psychology findings that explain the baffling choices you make every day
- BBC The New World: Nothing but the truth
- Guardian Long Read: The sugar conspiracy
- Workplace Wellness Programs Are a Sham
- Free speech debates are more than ‘radicals’ vs ‘liberals’
- Can We Really Measure Implicit Bias? Maybe Not
- What the ancient past can teach us about the chaos of 2016
- The Death Of Expertise
