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    Motor learning involves acquiring skills through experience and practice that result in lasting changes to an individual's ability to perform a motor skill. The goal of coaches is to facilitate these lasting changes in athletes by teaching improved techniques, overcoming limitations, and developing faster recognition and response times. Motor performance is the observable attempt by an individual to voluntarily produce an action and can be influenced by factors like motivation, focus, fatigue, and physical condition. Through practice, an athlete's performance abilities improve, demonstrating that motor learning has occurred.

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    Motor learning involves acquiring skills through experience and practice that result in lasting changes to an individual's ability to perform a motor skill. The goal of coaches is to facilitate these lasting changes in athletes by teaching improved techniques, overcoming limitations, and developing faster recognition and response times. Motor performance is the observable attempt by an individual to voluntarily produce an action and can be influenced by factors like motivation, focus, fatigue, and physical condition. Through practice, an athlete's performance abilities improve, demonstrating that motor learning has occurred.

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    Motor learning involves acquiring skills through experience and practice that result in lasting changes to an individual's ability to perform a motor skill. The goal of coaches is to facilitate these lasting changes in athletes by teaching improved techniques, overcoming limitations, and developing faster recognition and response times. Motor performance is the observable attempt by an individual to voluntarily produce an action and can be influenced by factors like motivation, focus, fatigue, and physical condition. Through practice, an athlete's performance abilities improve, demonstrating that motor learning has occurred.

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    Motor learning involves acquiring skills through experience and practice that result in lasting changes to an individual's ability to perform a motor skill. The goal of coaches is to facilitate these lasting changes in athletes by teaching improved techniques, overcoming limitations, and developing faster recognition and response times. Motor performance is the observable attempt by an individual to voluntarily produce an action and can be influenced by factors like motivation, focus, fatigue, and physical condition. Through practice, an athlete's performance abilities improve, demonstrating that motor learning has occurred.

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    Learning - the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.
    MOTOR LEARNING
    Learning, whether it involves teaching mathematics, science, or English in the classroom,
    or teaching motor skill and performance on the field of play (e.g., weight room, ice rink, tennis
    court, soccer field, basketball court, diving well, swimming pool, baseball or softball field) is about
    one thing: change. Motor learning can be defined as "the changes, associated with practice or
    experience, in internal processes that determine a person's capability for producing a motor
    skill" (Schmidt & Wrisberg, 2008, p. 11). One could add to the end of this definition the words
    that “persist over time." Change that is impermanent is not really change. For example, athletes
    who make a change one day but resort to the same familiar bad habit the next day have not really
    made a change; therefore, real learning has not occurred.

    The goal of the effective and successful coach is to facilitate lasting changes within
    athletes. Basketball coaches want their players to become better defenders, protect the ball, and
    perceive and exploit defensive miscues. Strength coaches want their athletes to improve lifting
    techniques, break through limiting self-expectations, and fatigue. Hockey coaches want their
    athletes to learn better skating technique, improve puck control, and quicken recognition and
    response time for defensive and offensive setups. Swimming coaches want their athletes to change
    their stroke techniques and learn mental strategies for dealing with fatigue and pain. Baseball and
    softball coaches want their athletes to learn better pitch recognition and swing technique and
    improve reaction time to pitches, hits, and steals. All of these goals demand the same thing: change
    in athlete behaviors, which is part of motor learning

    MOTOR PERFORMANCE

    Motor performance is the external and therefore observable attempt by an individual to


    produce a voluntary action that is susceptible to influences such as motivation, attentional focus,
    fatigue, and physical condition (Schmidt & Wrisberg, 2008). Motor performance is the external
    manifestation of an athlete's internal process for motor learning. An athlete can't learn a motor task
    without performance attempts or practice. The performance may vary due to influencing factors,
    but through practice the athlete's capabilities for producing the action improve. This improvement
    is assumed to be motor learning. Motor learning is certainly occurring when relatively stable
    repetitions of proficient performance occur, especially if they occur under different sets of
    circumstances (Schmidt & Wrisberg, 2008)

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