How Athletes Learn What are athletes trying to accomplish? The are learning skills. A skill and be defined as the quality of a persons performance. As a coach, teaching a skill, you must know what the athletes previous knowledge is. The slight modification for that is with the exceptional athlete who can use their analytical mind to visualize what they are doing, and what then need to do. It is important to make sure your …showed first 75 words of 273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 273 total…amount of repetition, doing both quality and quantity. The Practice leads to the Automatic where the skill(s) becomes second nature to the athletes. An athlete learns that they need to give their all to improve in a skill, and sometimes it can be hard for a coach to tell wether or not an athlete is giving their all. There are four steps in teaching skills to athletes. The first is to introduce the skill..........