Even though this is a paid membership site, I'm always reading and taking notes and sometimes something I read is so useful that I can't keep it to myself.
In these cases, where I've simply rehashed someone else's work, I'll pop it up for free because all I did was read it, and take notes from it.
Over the last couple of weeks we've take a look back at 2023 and today finishes with a book I took a heap of notes from titled "How We Learn to Move" by Rob Gray.
There's a follow up to this book that I intend to read in 2024 so expect another 5-part post series from that as well!
HIGHLIGHT - "We don’t repeat our movements, but they are not completely random and variable either – they are shaped by the constraints of our environment, including our culture."
HIGHLIGHT - "This embodied perception approach to perception argues that what we perceive is not a true representation of “what is out there” but rather what reflects our ability to act on objects in our environment."
HIGHLIGHT - "Athletes change their movement solutions to a less effective one under pressure because of how they were taught in the first place, and by following those explicit instructions you did when you were young, it only adds more pressure to nail every single cue in an already high-pressure situation."
HIGHLIGHT - "The Fosbury flop in the high jump came about when they changed the landing surface from sand at floor level to a crash mat at mid thigh level (task constraint), enabling jumpers to explore jumping over the bar in different ways but inspired far more by the task constraint then creativity."
HIGHLIGHT - "As far as learning fundamentals are concerned, a study had 10 and 11 year old soccer players complete 22 weeks of practice involving small sided games but they were not given any traditional, technical instruction but instead, the goal was for them to learn skills like dribbling and passing in the game, which were tested pre-study. While there were no improvements at 11 weeks, there were significant improvements in decision making and skill execution by week 22 so while it might take longer for basic skills to emerge, in the long run athletes develop the same fundamentals we see in traditional training but with the decision making improvements on top of it."
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