Embracing Aliveness

Want your practices to better reflect the game?

This video dives into what it means to embrace learning environments and set alive movement problems.  Ones filled with variability, unpredictability, and real decision-making.  This video dives into that concept and shows you real examples of how to make your environment more alive. 

Key Points for coaches

• Unpredictability builds adaptable athletes: Aliveness brings unpredictability into training, better reflecting the chaos and complexity of sport. This prepares athletes to adjust in real time and under pressure. 
• Changing constraints sharpen decision-making: Aliveness requires athletes to solve movement problems within constantly shifting conditions — like new opponents, space, or rules.  
• Embracing aliveness can be subtle: Shifting towards a more “alive" approach does not necessarily mean reinventing the wheel; it can be done through subtle shifts, such as: Injecting more variability into your sessions and replacing a "dead" information source with something more alive and relevant.