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Shape
Technical model is the most efficient and
effective shape
Inability to ‘access’ the shapes needed for
performance
Ability to maintain shape under increasing
loads underpins performance
Capacity to maintain shape on a repeated
basis underpins long term performance
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How Shape evolves...
Coaching instruction provides feedback & guides athlete
towards a technical model
Self-awareness allows the athlete to accurately
represent how good shape ‘feels’
Individual factors such as; Muscle strengths &
weaknesses, ROM’s, skeletal structure
Previous injury, individual anatomical differences,
postural quirks, residual fatigue etc
Time spent in specific movement patterns
=> Shape evolves to (a) get the job done for the least
energy cost, & (b) for the minimum of discomfort