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Sports Injury Prevention : The Role of the Strength and Conditioning Coach

- Talpey, Scott, Siesmaa, Emma

Authors: Talpey, Scott , Siesmaa, Emma
Date: 2017
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Strength and Conditioning Journal Vol. 39, no. 3 (2017), p. 14-19
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Description: Prevention of sports injuries is a priority for sport stakeholders across the spectrum of training and competition. Achieving this objective requires a multidisciplinary approach with strength and conditioning coaches playing an important role in the process. When considering sports injury prevention strategies, the role of the strength and conditioning coach can extend beyond observing exercise technique and prescribing training to develop a robust and resilient athlete. This paper provides strength and conditioning coaches with a broad overview of the sports injury prevention process and outlines examples of how strength and conditioning coaches can work to promote and improve athlete safety. © 2017 National Strength and Conditioning Association.

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Improving 'at-action' decision-making in team sports through a holistic coaching approach

- Light, Richard, Harvey, Stephen, Mouchet, Alain

Authors: Light, Richard , Harvey, Stephen , Mouchet, Alain
Date: 2014
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Sport, Education and Society Vol. 19, no. 3 (April 2014 2014), p. 258-275
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Description: This article draws on Game Sense pedagogy and complex learning theory (CLT) to make suggestions for improving decision-making ability in team sports by adopting a holistic approach to coaching with a focus on decision-making 'at-action'. It emphasizes the complexity of decision-making and the need to focus on the game as a whole entity, where players, individually and collectively, attempt to manage disorder in the face of an opposition. It rejects the complicated, mechanistic approach to learning and cognitivist views that dominate the literature on decision-making in team sports that see it as being a linear process of conscious thinking limited to the individual mind. It offers an alternative, holistic view grounded in a practical example of how this might be achieved in coaching rugby union football and theorized within a CLT framework.

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Coaching and talent development in esports : a theoretical framework and suggestions for future research

- Bubna, Kabir, Trotter, Michael, Watson, Matthew, Polman, Remco

Authors: Bubna, Kabir , Trotter, Michael , Watson, Matthew , Polman, Remco
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Frontiers in Psychology Vol. 14, no. (2023), p.
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Description: Esports is a growing phenomenon that is capturing the attention of individuals worldwide, and has grown to provide professional and lucrative careers for those who reach the upper echelons. One question that arises, is how esports athletes develop the necessary skills required to improve and compete. This perspective piece opens the door to skill acquisition within esports and how research through an ecological approach can benefit researchers and practitioners as they understand the various perception-action couplings and decision-making challenges faced by esports athletes. We will identify and discuss what constraints look like in esports, the role of affordances, and theorize the implementation of a constraints-led approach in contrasting esports genres. As esports is technology-heavy in nature and generally sedentary, the use of eye-tracking technology is argued to represent an effective method to better understand perceptual attunement between individuals and teams. Future research into skill acquisition in esports is needed to develop a clearer picture of what makes the greatest esports player so great, and how newer players can be developed effectively. Copyright © 2023 Bubna, Trotter, Watson and Polman.

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Does the modality used in health coaching matter? A systematic review of health coaching outcomes

- Singh, Harjit, Kennedy, Gerard, Stupans, Ieva

Authors: Singh, Harjit , Kennedy, Gerard , Stupans, Ieva
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Patient Preference and Adherence Vol. 14, no. (2020), p. 1477-1492
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Description: Objective: The purpose of this review was to evaluate the modalities (e.g., face-to-face, telephone or electronic) of pharmacist health coaching providing the greatest improvement in patient outcomes, to enable a more comprehensive evaluation to be done and quality decision-making around health coaching modalities to be undertaken by pharmacists. Methods: This systematic review followed the PRISMA guidelines. CINHAL, EMBASE, PubMed, PsychINFO and SCOPUS were searched (2000–2019). Included articles were reviewed for the modality used to health coach, the training provided, and the outcomes. Results: Twelve papers met the eligibility criteria. A majority of studies included involved a combination of modalities of pharmacist health coaching. Four papers referred to face-toface sessions, and one study used telephone coaching. In each paper, coaching led to an improvement in clinical and non-clinical health outcomes. Conclusion: The training provided to health coaches varied and in some cases was not reported. Inconsistencies in reports led to difficulties when comparing study outcomes. Therefore, conclusions about the modality providing the greatest improvement in patient outcomes and the most pragmatic health coaching modality are not possible. Studies that document the training, the modality, the outcomes and the cost benefits of coaching by pharmacists are warranted to enable a more comprehensive evaluation to be done and quality decision-making around health coaching modalities to be undertaken by pharmacists. © 2020 Singh et al.

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Sprinting and hamstring strain injury : beliefs and practices of professional physical performance coaches in Australian football

- Freeman, Brock, Talpey, Scott, James, Lachlan, Young, Warren

Authors: Freeman, Brock , Talpey, Scott , James, Lachlan , Young, Warren
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Physical Therapy in Sport Vol. 48, no. (2021), p. 12-19
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Description: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to establish beliefs and practices of physical performance coaches regarding sprinting and Hamstring Strain Injury (HSI) in Australian Rules football. Designs: Delphi-validated questionnaire. Setting: Online. Participants: Eighteen high-performance managers of the Australian Football League. Main outcome measures: Descriptive statistics were collected to establish experience; central themes were established for the analyses of the beliefs and practices. Results: Nine (50%) physical performance coaches responded to an invitation to complete the questionnaire. Participants held an undergraduate degree and had 9.2 ± 4.3 years of experience. Accelerations (n = 9), maximum speed sprints (n = 9) and running with hip flexion (n = 7) were the most common activities associated with HSI. Coaches believed sprinting, eccentric strength training and proper periodisation were effective strategies to reduce HSI risk. There's a disparity between beliefs and practices when using GPS to monitor sprinting, however, all coaches reported regular exposure to sprint training across both pre and in-season. Overstriding (n = 9) and pelvic instability (n = 6) were identified as key flaws in running mechanics. Conclusions: This information can be used to improve training strategies, whilst these findings indicate further investigations into sprint training and running mechanics for HSI risk reduction. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

Teacher development through the masters in teaching and learning: A lost opportunity

- Castle, Karen, Peiser, Gillian, Smith, Elizabeth

Authors: Castle, Karen , Peiser, Gillian , Smith, Elizabeth
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Masterliness in the Teaching Profession p. 29-37
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Description: This paper examines the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) from the aspect of the MTL in action. It is written by university lecturers who are responsible for its delivery and examines the idea of teacher development through a work-based master’s course. We provide three case studies of the views of MTL participants and their coaches, presented as vignettes. These explore the themes of teacher agency and risk-taking, developments in practice and the role of the coach. We found that the MTL provides a framework in which teachers may feel more confident in enacting agency, trialling new ideas and taking risks, and that they have developed the way in which they reflect on their practice. This has involved a deeper critique of their teaching and learning strategies. Lastly, examination of the coaching model around which the MTL was developed has identified contrasting, yet effective, situations in practice. All three scenarios highlight that the teachers perceive engagement with theoretical perspectives to be greatly beneficial.

Sport-specific factors predicting player retention in junior cricket

- Talpey, Scott, Croucher, Tom, Bani-Mustafa, Ahmed, Finch, Caroline

Authors: Talpey, Scott , Croucher, Tom , Bani-Mustafa, Ahmed , Finch, Caroline
Date: 2017
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: European Journal of Sport Science Vol. 17, no. 3 (2017), p. 264-270
Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/565900
Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1058737
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Description: Understanding factors that motivate young athletes to continue participation in sport can help key stakeholders cultivate an environment that fosters long-term participation. This investigation sought to determine the performance and participation factors that influenced continued participation in junior cricket. Administration-level data were collected each annual season across a seven-year period by a community-level junior cricket association in Australia and analysed to identify the performance and participation-based predictors of player retention. All players were males aged <16 years. Players were categorised according to whether they remained in (or departed from) the association at the end of each playing season. A multivariate logistic regression model with a stepwise variable selection was employed to identify significant independent predictors of player retention. The number of innings batted and overs bowled were significant participation-related contributors to junior cricket player retention. Performance factors such as the number of wickets taken and the number of runs scored also significantly influenced player retention. Finally, team age group, the number of previous seasons played and age were also significant factors in player retention. This demonstrates that sufficient opportunity for children to participate in the game and expression of skills competence are key factors for retention in cricket.
Description: Understanding factors that motivate young athletes to continue participation in sport can help key stakeholders cultivate an environment that fosters long-term participation. This investigation sought to determine the performance and participation factors that influenced continued participation in junior cricket. Administration-level data were collected each annual season across a seven-year period by a community-level junior cricket association in Australia and analysed to identify the performance and participation-based predictors of player retention. All players were males aged <16 years. Players were categorised according to whether they remained in (or departed from) the association at the end of each playing season. A multivariate logistic regression model with a stepwise variable selection was employed to identify significant independent predictors of player retention. The number of innings batted and overs bowled were significant participation-related contributors to junior cricket player retention. Performance factors such as the number of wickets taken and the number of runs scored also significantly influenced player retention. Finally, team age group, the number of previous seasons played and age were also significant factors in player retention. This demonstrates that sufficient opportunity for children to participate in the game and expression of skills competence are key factors for retention in cricket. © 2016 European College of Sport Science.

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Implementing skill acquisition research in high-performance sport : reflecting on the importance of autonomy-support for successful collaboration

- Morris-Binelli, Khaya, Müller, Sean, van Rens, Fleur, Staniforth, Dave, Appleby, Brendyn, Rosalie, Simon

Authors: Morris-Binelli, Khaya , Müller, Sean , van Rens, Fleur , Staniforth, Dave , Appleby, Brendyn , Rosalie, Simon
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Sport Psychology in Action Vol. 13, no. 3 (2022), p. 143-154
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Description: Perceptual-cognitive-motor skills, such as visual anticipation, are pivotal for superior performance in sport. However, there are only a limited number of skill acquisition specialists working with coaches to develop these skills in athletes. The purpose of this paper is to present a brief reflection on the use of psychological strategies to create an autonomy-supportive environment to embed a skill acquisition research project in high-performance sport. The research project was conducted with the Australian national field hockey high-performance unit and investigated individual differences in expert goalkeepers’ visual anticipation. The paper first discusses the role of a skill acquisition specialist, how they collaborate with coaches and athletes, and barriers to collaboration. The paper then outlines how psychological strategies can be used to create an autonomy-supportive environment to build a relationship and establish a research collaboration with a team. Further, the paper discusses the importance of continually involving coaches and athletes in the research process to facilitate their engagement and self-determined motivation to complete the project. By applying psychological strategies to create an autonomy-supportive environment, sports scientists may have greater success in overcoming the many barriers to conduct research in an elite sport setting, with the outcomes highly valuable for athlete development. © 2021 Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

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Working towards more effective implementation, dissemination and scale-up of lower-limb injury-prevention programs : Insights from community Australian football coaches

- McGlashan, Angela, Verrinder, Glenda, Verhagen, Evert

Authors: McGlashan, Angela , Verrinder, Glenda , Verhagen, Evert
Date: 2018
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 15, no. 2 (2018), p. 1-23
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Description: Disseminating lower-limb injury-prevention exercise programs (LL-IPEPs) with strategies that effectively reach coaches across sporting environments is a way of preventing lower-limb injuries (LLIs) and ensuring safe and sustainable sport participation. The aim of this study was to explore community-Australian Football (community-AF) coaches’ perspectives on the strategies they believed would enhance the dissemination and scale-up of LL-IPEPs. Using a qualitative multiple case study design, semi-structured interviews with community-AF coaches in Victoria, Australia, were conducted. Overall, coaches believed a range of strategies were important including: coach education, policy drivers, overcoming potential problem areas, a ‘try before you buy approach’, presenting empirical evidence and guidelines for injury-prevention exercise programs (IPEPs), forming strategic collaboration and working in partnership, communication and social marketing, public meetings, development of a coach hotline, and targeted multi-focused approaches. A shift to a culture whereby evidence-based IPEP practices in community-AF will take time, and persistent commitment by all involved in the sport is important. This will support the creation of strategies that will enhance the dissemination and scale-up of LL-IPEPs across community sport environments. The focus of research needs to continue to identify effective, holistic and multi-level interventions to support coaches in preventing LLIs. This could lead to the determination of successful strategies such as behavioural regulation strategies and emotional coping resources to implement LL-IPEPs into didactic curricula and practice. Producing changes in practice will require attention to which strategies are a priority and the most effective. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Enculturated beliefs: A grounded theory inquiry into club rugby coaching in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand

- Hassanin, Remy

Authors: Hassanin, Remy
Date: 2015
Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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Description: Due to the enduring positivist assumptions underpinning them, coach education programs typically have overlooked the importance of experience as a powerful influence for developing as a sports coach Despite growing recognition of the links between past experience and current coaching pedagogy, little empirical research has focused precisely on how lived experience influences coaching beliefs or practices. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, this study investigated the influence of culture on coaching beliefs and how these manifest in the discourse of coaching in a site-specific context. It further examined how beliefs of coaching develop from the experience of playing and coaching in three different countries. Interviews, completed with coaches in the highest levels of club competition m Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, provided the primary data source. Findings demonstrated that beliefs about coaching are profoundly shaped by participation in the practices of rugby as players, and then coaches, in local cultures. The results identified unique differences across the sites of study. These differences were intimately linked with the cultural context within which each coach learned to play and coach Briefly, the Australian coaches valued decision-making and had strong views of rugby as entertainment; the South African coaches prioritised respect and authority; and the New Zealand coaches cherished humility and sense of belonging. . Despite the unique characteristics of each of the coach's beliefs, the notion of rugby as a vehicle for developing character, and teaching moral lessons rooted in the nineteenth century schools of the rising English middle classes, formed a powerful influence across all sites. The coaches' local ised bel iefs interacted with, and were shaped by, the remarkbly resilient global discourse of the " amateur ideal" and it's associated values. Its influence was, however, distinct at each site. The findings indicate that coaches' beliefs adapted to, and were moulded by, local cultural contexts and a broader national ethos resulting in discrete differences in each context on coaches' development of beliefs about coaching , while highlighting the complex and dynamic ways in which local and global cultures interact. As a result of thes interaction, unique conditions are created , manifesting in indvidua; discourse and beliefs about rugby coaching.
Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Transitions in Child and Youth Sport

- Eime, Rochelle

Authors: Eime, Rochelle
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Coaching Children in Sport Chapter 11 p. 94-101
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Description: Participation in community-based sport is very popular for children. Young participants often play modified sport and then transition into club competition. However, during adolescence, there is significant number of people who drop-out of playing organised competitive sport. Many adolescents at this time transition out of sport and into other physical activities which are often non-competitive and also unstructured. The sampling phenomenon also comes into play for children and youth as there many seem to be a drop-out of a particular sport, however it may be that, particularly during adolescence, individuals specialise in one sport whereas previously as children they may have played multiple sports. Further, children and youth often transition across sports. This chapter will explore the participation trends for children and youth, both from an age perspective and overall trends over time. It will also describe some of the determinants for participation in sport and drop-out for children and youth and specifically how these change with age. In doing so it will use a socio-ecological approach with key determinants explained within the intrapersonal, interpersonal, organisational, environmental and policy domains. This chapter will provide information and recommendations for sports coaches and others involved with the delivery of community club-based sport. It will draw on sport policy and explain the rationale for a more focused effort on retention in sport, but at the same time reflecting that in terms of active individuals it is fine if people transition from sport and into other leisure-time physical activities. This chapter explores the participation trends for children and youth, both from an age perspective and overall trends over time. It describes some of the determinants for participation in sport and drop-out for children and youth and specifically how these change with age. In doing so it will use a socio-ecological approach with key determinants explained within the intrapersonal, interpersonal, organisational, environmental and policy domains. The chapter provides information and recommendations for sports coaches and others involved with the delivery of community club-based sport. It also draws on sport policy and explain the rationale for a more focused effort on retention in sport, but at the same time reflecting that in terms of active individuals it is fine if people transition from sport and into other leisure-time physical activities.

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