Episode 315: Kevin Mulcahy, Constraints Led Coaching

Guest: Kevin Mulcahy, Sports Practice Design Specialist Sports practice design specialist Kevin Mulcahy joins the Basketball Podcast to share insights on representative practice using a constraints-led approach.

Kevin is an experienced sports and conditioning coach who has worked with sports teams, athletes, professionals, and clubs across three continents for over 30 years. He is the owner-operator of the Design the Game Project, a platform that shares coaching insights and research with a progressive and learning-led audience.

Design the Game promotes a Constraints Led Approach to Motor Learning and coaching. Kevin has studied on and off the field how humans learn to move and learn skills for well over 20 years. Through the Design the Game brand has run several mini online courses around motor learning, decision making in sport and practice design. Kevin also runs TMC Performance, a sports and conditioning, personal training business that caters to the overall health and lifestyle of his clients from athletes to busy professionals through a strength and conditioning for life and sport mindset and programming approach.

Kevin has a strong educational background in coaching science, with a BSc in Strength and Conditioning from Setanta College, a certificate in Nutritional Science and Coaching from Precision Nutrition, and a certificate in The Neuroscience of Decision Making from Barcelona FC

Breakdown 1:00 - Constraint Led Approach 7:00 - Manipulating Task Constraint 11:30 - Elicit Skill 16:00 - Technique Development 26:00 - Poet's Practice 34:00 - Feedback with Action 40:00 - Early in Learning 49:00 - History 52:00 - Playing Unstructured 59:00 - Affordances 1:03:30 - The Three Things 1:07:00 - Basketball Drills 1:12:00 - Free Throw 1:14:00 - Conclusion

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