When the skill doesn’t stick or is lost: two stories and their strategies – part 1
Understanding the foundations of motor skill learning allows the coach to create a strategy tailored to that specific athlete.
Understanding the foundations of motor skill learning allows the coach to create a strategy tailored to that specific athlete.
(Originally published on elitefts, authored by me) This is the 11th day after my young friend and athlete’s passing. It’s a lot of time but not time enough to elaborate on my questions. They remain unanswered. I only coached him for a couple of months but the darkness in our continued private conversation kept me …
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Today I won’t share someone’s program. It doesn’t make sense anymore. He’s gone (as in deceased). (originally published at elitefts – authored by me) I was informed of his passing Monday, two days later. I still can’t explain my inner paradox: I had been engaging in mental rehearsals, “auto-biographical function” or just entertaining random trains …
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I collect fitness newsletters. I do delete about 90% of them, but some, which either seem different or very representative, I move to a file I named “MARKETING STUDY PRIMARY SOURCES”. I think at some point I wanted to study them, but they are not methodologically sampled, I can’t correlate their strategies to actual corporate …
The construction of false conceptions in the fitness industry Read More »
THE DREAM IS OVER – LONG LIVE THE DREAM – Older adults with a varied life experience will relate to this: there’s a moment, and you don’t know when exactly that moment happened because you are just aware that it passed, that you realize you’re not in love anymore. There may be something there, but …
THE DREAM IS OVER – LONG LIVE THE DREAM – Older adults with a varied life experience will relate to this: there’s a moment, and you don’t know when exactly that moment happened because you are just aware that it passed, that you realize you’re not in love anymore. There may be something there, but …
I was going to write “the reality”. This would be not only false and simplistic, but arrogant and illogical. There is no “the” reality. Every good coach who distance-coaches (online) does so after years of on-ground coaching. Here I will share how one feeds back into the other for me, how the variety of programs …
Or how to fix (your sport, your country, your team, your profession) You can’t. There is nothing to fix because it is not actually broken or damaged. It has evolved in a direction that scares or pisses you off. That doesn’t mean it is damaged. What you don’t like is what is known as “perverse …
I’m a motherly coach. I’ve been told that and I was even given some very cute nicknames because of that, the best one being Khaleesi. But I have a template: my master, Angelo Pio Buonafina, who brought me, in this version of myself, into the world. Which brings me to the topic of coaches as …
This article is a case study partly based on ethnographic analysis about a strength training gym. The goal here is to explore the concepts related to “homeness” on the choice of the training environment. It sets the ground for subsequent essays on alternative training settings and facilities and the concepts involved in their evolution. This …