SPECIFICITY AND VARIABILITY - Motor Learning For Coaches

• 1:26 - Checking up on Harjiv: with the start of the NBA season, how has he been doing?
• 3:07 - What is “specificity” in relation to motor learning and practice design?
• 6:43 - Why should the specificity of practice and the specificity of movement be separated from each other?
• 10:16 - Defining variability and describing its benefits.
• 11:22 - Attributing specificity of practice as the “what” and the specificity of movement as the “how”.
• 13:09 - How do variation and specificity relate to each other?
• 14:38 - How does specificity and variation fit into volleyball given how chaotic it is?
• 17:00 - How does Kasey interact with the chaos of volleyball?
• 19:40 - Can we be specific while also having changes in variability?
• 25:48 - What is the thought process behind increasing and decreasing variability within the baseball setting?
• 27:18 - Are there instances where some kinds of variability may be more or less effective than others?
• 31:09 - One large and implementable takeaway from this episode.

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