Coaching Research to Results
Sport coaching research holds the answers to your biggest coaching questions, yet most of it stays buried in academic journals written for academics, not coaches like you. In the Coaching Research to Results podcast, your host, Beth Barz, takes one real research paper and breaks it down into three big ideas and two actions you can apply in your next coaching session, all in under 15 minutes. If you want to coach smarter, not harder, this podcast is for you. Check for show notes & further info on becoming a thriving coach here: https://thecoachdeveloper.com/coaching-research-to-results-podcast-notes/
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In this episode of Coaching Research to Results, host Beth Barz explores what research can teach us about the culture that develops around the sideline and the powerful role coaches play in shaping it.
If you’ve ever struggled with managing athlete behaviour and expectations, wondered how to respond when emotions run high, or found yourself navigating difficult interactions with pa...
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Season 3 finale: Beth Barz sits down with veteran British coach developer Tom Hartley for a wide-ranging conversation on coach development and practice design across football, gymnastics, motorsport, and rowing. Drawing on two decades of experience, Tom shares a real-world example of the constraints-led approach in action, describing how one small constraint change transformed player sc...
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"Well done." "Good job." "Nice work."
You say those phrases constantly, but do they actually help your athletes learn anything? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, Beth Barz reviews a systematic review of coach feedback observed across thirty-one real coaching sessions in football, basketball, volleyball, rugby, and more. If you coach any sport and want to understand w...
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"Keep your elbow up." "Bend your knees." "Watch your hand."
These sound like solid coaching cues, but thirty years of motor learning research suggest instructions like these may be slowing your athletes down. In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, host Beth Barz unpacks the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning and what it reveals about attentional focus, feedback framing, and...
Fat Questions, Skinny Answers: Why big coach questions build better athletes than giving the answers
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How much of your coaching is actually questioning, and how much of that questioning genuinely makes your athletes think? This episode looks at research on questioning within game-based coaching approaches and why so much of what coaches call a question does not actually ask anything at all. If you coach any sport that requires decision-making - invasion territory sports like basketball,...
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Can Teaching Games for Understanding actually hold up with adult, competitive athletes over a full season, not just in a school gym? In this episode, host Beth Barz shares findings from an eight-month, first-person study of a volleyball coach who lived inside the game-based approach with his own national league team. If you coach adults or competitive athletes and want to know how game-...
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You have read about the constraints-led approach, maybe even taken a course on it, but when you are standing on the field designing a session, do you actually know which constraints to choose and why? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, your host, Beth Barz, digs into new research calling for more practical, research-informed guidelines for constraints-led coaching.
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What if the equipment, space, and rules you choose for practice are teaching your athletes just as much as your instructions are? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, your host explores a foundational paper on the constraints-led approach to skill acquisition in sport, unpacking how individual, task, and environmental constraints shape the way athletes learn to move.
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Are your practice sessions built on drills first, game later, and are your athletes still struggling to make smart decisions when it counts? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, the host, Beth Barz, breaks down a systematic review and meta-analysis of 25 studies and nearly 1,700 athletes examining Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and its impact on decision-making in s...
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In this episode, we talk about culture and how Jocelyn supports team culture with her current group of Canadian athletes on the World Rugby 7s Series circuit.
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This conversation explores how coaching practice is deeply shaped by personal experience, reflection, and intentional learning, with Dr. Sasha Gollish emphasizing a person-centered approach that prioritizes developing humans over just athletes. A key theme is that foundational skills like focus underpin confidence and resilience, and coaches should replace assumptions with curiosity by ...
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Gorczynski et al.'s 2021 paper called "Developing Mental Health Literacy and Cultural Competence in Elite Sport." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning are The Cultural Blindspot, The Invisible Athletes, and Don't Leave It at the Athlete's Door. Which one of these ideas hits most for the group of athletes you work with right now?
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This episode examines Hägglund et al.'s paper called "Wearing a Self-Compassion Suit May Offer a Performance Edge: A Qualitative Study of Serial-Winning High-Performance Coaches." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning are The Armour Paradox, The Rumination Tax, and The Early Seed Effect. All three of these big ideas contribute to the two immediately applicable...
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