Better Coaching

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In today’s competitive sports environment, parents, coaches, and young athletes are increasingly pressured to focus on one sport from an early age. This approach provides athletes with a broader range of motor skills and reduces the risk of overuse injuries by giving their bodies a break from the repetitive stress of one sport.

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Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A project a few years ago that we undertook using competitive engineering in an Australian football (AFL) competition (Elliott & Pill, 2016) found players, parents and coaches preferred the competitively engineered junior sport competition design to the 'regular' competition. 2021), Buszard et al. & Hammermeister, J. Buszard, T.,

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The purpose of this collaboration is to support physical education teachers and coaches to provide better access and inclusion for students with disabilities. . PLT4M, the Lakeshore Foundation and the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) are proud to announce a new partnership.

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MSU

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For coaches and other leaders, it may also be helpful to note specific situations in which competitive behaviors are frequent. Leadership is a relationship factor that can lead to conflict and is especially important for coaches to consider. In sport, a coach may take on a mediating role when conflict exists between athletes.

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PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

He has taught physical education at preschool, elementary, and high school levels and courses related to exercise science, coaching, health, and wellness at the university level. This article is part of an on-going partnership between PLT4M, Lakeshore Foundation, and NCHPAD.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

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Whole Child Sports

JANUARY 20, 2020

One result: potentially delayed development of motor skills. Kids tune out their parents (and coaches) if they are bombarded with ideas, suggestions, and corrections. That’s why it’s so important to get your child moving. Solution: Awakening your child’s inner athlete is actually easy to do and can be really fun for both of you.

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PLT4M

AUGUST 15, 2023

In many cases, a parent/guardian and athletic director/coach have to sign off on the waiver (example below). Physical education provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity and physical fitness. Example of Physical Education Waiver Form.

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Aspire-Ed

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Children who participate in regular physical activities and sports develop better motor skills, have improved focus, show enhanced emotional skills, and have a better connection with their peers, transcending boundaries that come with different backgrounds and abilities.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

JANUARY 15, 2021

I adopted this structure in my role as coaching director with an athletic development academy that operated across multiple sites during my time in New Zealand. To explain the top line in the figure, the onus at this stage is discovering and developing movement capabilities and motor skills.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

MAY 30, 2022

In turn, certain schools prize their reputation for excellence in particular sports such that they invest in facilities, coaching and support staff – and some even go as far as recruiting kids who excel in a targeted sport. This is arguably the biggest misconception that parents need to guard against when assessing potential options.

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AKA Sports

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Thanks to athletes/coaches, their sound souls and perspectives, leaders like Jeff Schmidt, Nicole Hoffman, and Kyle Ramsey, we raise greater awareness to mental health, closer to home and to your kids. Motor skills, decision making, strength, they all start from our heads. Everything in life starts straight from the mind.

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PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Additionally, color coded T-shirts earned for lifting standards are examples of an external regulation (reward) and can provide incentive for hard work, dedication in the weight room, and status with teammates and coaches. multiple variations of a task focusing on the same motor skill). Provide intra-task variation (i.e.

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