A Constraints-Led Approach to Swim Coaching

✍ Scribed by ANDREW. SHEAFF

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book encourages coaches to re-consider how they approach skill development. It presents a framework for identifying the various constraints that determine the ability to perform at a high level. It offers coaches' examples to navigate the manipulation of constraints to support the development of physical capacities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction—Searching the Landscape for a New Way
Section 1 Making Waves—An Introduction to Swimming and Task Constraints
2 Task Design
3 Advanced Set Construction—Adding Constraints to Influence Skill
4 The Role of Language
Section 2 Manipulating Individual Constraints
5 Manipulating Physiology for Technical Development
6 Training Aids—Theoretical Considerations
7 Training Aids—Practical Applications
Section 3 Coaching Principles for Effecting Change
8 Theoretical Principles for Skill Adaptation
9 Principles for Skilled Swimming
10 A Systematic Approach to Change
11 Strategies for Increasing Variability in Practice
12 Solving Complex Movement Problems with Constraints
Section 4 Constraints in Action: Practical Examples for Coaching
13 Freestyle
14 Backstroke
15 Breaststroke
16 Butterfly
17 Underwater Kicking
18 Final Thoughts
Index