Questions And Answers 2023
Foundations of Effective Training - √Answer :Teaching
seeing
correcting
group management
presence and attitude
demonstration
Quiz :Teaching - √Answer :Effectively articulate and instruct the mechanics of each movement, focus on major points of performance before more subtle and nuanced ones, change instruction based on the athletes
needs and capacity and teach athletes how to improve poor positions and movement patterns.
Quiz :Knowledge in fitness related areas - √Answer :Ability to accurately convey as much knowledge as possible to others.
Quiz :Effective Communication - √Answer :Be able to change communication style to meet the capacity of the
student and change strategies until the athlete succeeds.
Quiz :Assess the effectiveness of teaching and communication - √Answer :Determining whether an athlete meets performance expectations.
Quiz :Teaching as much as neccessary - √Answer :Reduce and simplify body of knowledge to one
or two most critical points. Quiz :Seeing - √Answer :Ability to discern good from poor movement mechanics and identify both gross and subtle faults with athletes in motion and static.
Quiz :Static Faults - √Answer :When the athlete is not moving, even briefly. In the starting, receiving and finishing positions.
Quiz :Dynamic Faults - √Answer :When the athlete is moving between static positions.
Quiz :Most useful dynamic view - √Answer :A profile view offset by 45 degrees
Quiz :Difficulty seeing dynamic faults increases when - √Answer :Athlete moves quickly and faults become subtler
Quiz :Methods to develop ability to see faults - √Answer :Study film
Survey athletes for only one fault at a time
Quiz :Correcting - √Answer :Ability to facilitate better mechanics for an athlete using visual, verbal or tactile cues. Ability to triage faults. Understanding of how multiple faults are related.
Quiz :Correcting mechanics results in - √Answer :Increased performance gains and decreased risk of injury.
Quiz :Abilities for correcting - √Answer :Use successful cues
Know multiple corrections for each fault
Triage faulty movement
Balance critique with praise.
Quiz :Cues - √Answer :Direction to help an athlete execute perfect mechanics. Quiz :Good Cue - √Answer :Any cue that results in improved movement mechanics
Quiz :Cues do not - √Answer :Perfectly describe the mechanics of the movement
Quiz :Cues should be - √Answer :Short
Specific
Actionable
Quiz :Actionable cue - √Answer :Gives a single task for the athlete to complete
Quiz :Fault Identification - Bad Cue - √Answer :Pointing out the fault, does not tell the athlete how to fix it
Quiz :Cue language - √Answer :Simple and easily understood by anyone
Quiz :Three step cue proccess - √Answer :Identify the fault
Identify what is out of place
Give direction to that body part
Quiz :If athletes movement does not improve - √Answer :Use multiple cues until the fault is resolved
Quiz :Corrective strategies - √Answer :Verbal
Visual
Tactile
Quiz :Verbal Cues - √Answer :Tell an athlete a specific instruction
Quiz :Visual Cues - √Answer :Create contrasting images between current and desired positioning
Quiz :Tactile Cues - √Answer :Use physical targets to achieve proper mechanics