The Sports Coaching Podcast - Season 4 - Episode 6 - What is a mental model, target performance model? And how can we use these in coaching practice?

In the latest episode of The Sports Coaching Podcast, Sam
Holmshaw is joined by Liv Phillips (Swimming coach and Ilkley
Town Women's First team mental skills coach) and Ethan Holmshaw
(Ilkley Town Women's First team assistant manager, operations
director & head coach at The Holmshaw Academy, Lead coach at
Horsforth Junior Football club). In this episode the trio discuss
Mental models (of sport) and target performance models. In
segment 1, both Liv and Ethan give an introduction to mental
models, explaining the academic concept behind the model, and its
purpose. In segment two similarly the guys provide an insight on
the concept of a target performance model, and explain how it can
be used in coaching practice. Finally in segment 3 the
implications for coaching practice are discussed.


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