Pushing Through Plateaus
You can be in a representative training environment, but be stagnant because that's where you've lived all the time. You're probably going to need to ask yourself to do things in that environment that you don't normally do if you don't want to settle for where you're at.
Try New Things
Trying different things is valuable and you are not going to break yourself if you try something different. You will only break yourself if you commit to a different solution that's flawed for a period of time.
Fake Confidence
Inflating somebody's confidence, or telling them a lie that they’re better than everybody else when they're not, to artificially inflate how good they think they are, doesn't make them better. It's important to think of confidence or self-efficacy as something that's earned.
Timestamp
0:42 — Professional Background
2:55 — Paper #1 Discussion - Internal vs. External Focus
20:19 — Paper #2 Discussion - Self-Controller Practice
32:57 — Paper #3 Discussion - Learner Feedback
51:19 — General Advice to Golfers and Coaches
53:46 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind About Over Your Career?
1:01:33 — Book Recommendations
1:05:24 — Current Projects
Resources
Book Recommendation #1: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Paper #3: Meta-analysis of the reduced feedback frequency effect on motor learning and performance
About Dr. Brad McKay
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Brad McKay is the Senior Strategist – Training Design for the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. He collaborates with coaches, analysts, and sport scientists to enhance the development and performance of Brewers players.
His academic background began with an Honour’s degree in Psychology from St. Thomas University in his hometown of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He then completed his Master of Science degree in Kinesiology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, supervised by Dr. Gabriele Wulf. His doctorate was earned in Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, supervised by Dr. Diane Ste-Marie. Prior to joining the Brewers, Brad was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University, working in Dr. Michael Carter’s Metascience, Action, and Cognition laboratory.
His research focuses on the metascience of motor learning and performance, in particular understanding the evidential basis underpinning the field’s most import phenomena, as well as the systemic issues that undermine the accumulation of knowledge.
Motor Learning & Performance w/ Dr. Brad McKay