Coaching Research to Results
Sport coaching research holds the answers to your biggest coaching questions, yet most of it stays buried in academic journals written for academics, not coaches like you.
In the Coaching Research to Results podcast, your host, Beth Barz, takes one real research paper and breaks it down into three big ideas and two actions you can apply in your next coaching session, all in under 15 minutes. If you want to coach smarter, not harder, this podcast is for you.
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Episodes
24 episodes
The Sideline Curriculum: Why game day behaviour is learned, and how coaches can change the lesson
In this episode of Coaching Research to Results, host Beth Barz explores what research can teach us about the culture that develops around the sideline and the powerful role coaches play in shaping it.If you’ve ever struggled wi...
Season 3 Finale Interview: Tom Hartley on coach development and practice session design strategies
Season 3 finale: Beth Barz sits down with veteran British coach developer Tom Hartley for a wide-ranging conversation on coach development and practice design across football, gymnastics, motorsport, and rowing. Drawing on two decades of experi...
Praise Is Not Feedback: Why coaches revert to empty praise
"Well done." "Good job." "Nice work." You say those phrases constantly, but do they actually help your athletes learn anything? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, Beth Barz reviews a systematic review of coach feedback...
The Look-Away Effect: Where attention goes, learning follows
"Keep your elbow up." "Bend your knees." "Watch your hand." These sound like solid coaching cues, but thirty years of motor learning research suggest instructions like these may be slowing your athletes down. In this episode of Coac...
Fat Questions, Skinny Answers: Why big coach questions build better athletes than giving the answers
How much of your coaching is actually questioning, and how much of that questioning genuinely makes your athletes think? This episode looks at research on questioning within game-based coaching approaches and why so much of what coaches call a ...
Play the Whole Game: How whole game coaching builds tactical understanding
Can Teaching Games for Understanding actually hold up with adult, competitive athletes over a full season, not just in a school gym? In this episode, host Beth Barz shares findings from an eight-month, first-person study of a volleyball coach w...
The Missing Manual for Constraint Design: Building your own playbook for constraint design
You have read about the constraints-led approach, maybe even taken a course on it, but when you are standing on the field designing a session, do you actually know which constraints to choose and why? In this episode of Coaching Research To Res...
The Environment Is the Lesson Plan: Designing practice environments that do the teaching
What if the equipment, space, and rules you choose for practice are teaching your athletes just as much as your instructions are? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, your host explores a foundational paper on the constraints-led ap...
The Why Before the How Effect: How teaching games for understanding builds smarter players
Are your practice sessions built on drills first, game later, and are your athletes still struggling to make smart decisions when it counts? In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, the host, Beth Barz, breaks down a systematic review a...
Season Finale Interview with Guest Jocelyn Barrieau, Canadian Women's Rugby 7s Head Coach: A look into culture
In this episode, we talk about culture and how Jocelyn supports team culture with her current group of Canadian athletes on the World Rugby 7s Series circuit.
The Whole Coach: Developing good people with social influences and safety needs
The Culture IS the Training Plan: The human is more important than the winning
Start With Me: What Championship Coaches Did After Their Worst Season
When Winning Hides the Cracks: Serial winning coaches discovered success masking
Championship Habits: What six elite coaches reveal about building lasting excellence
The Face Scorecard: How Your Emotional Expressions Shape Team Performance Before You Speak
This episode examines van Kleef et al's (2019) paper called "Emotional Games: How Coaches’ Emotional Expressions Shape Players’ Emotions, Inferences, and Team Performance." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning are Th...
Two Smiles, Two Bodies: What Your Face Does to Your Athletes
This episode examines Furley & Thrien's 2024 paper called "A Smile Can Go a Long Way: The Effects of Dominant and Rewarding Smiles of Coaches on Athletes in an Evaluative Performance Context." The big ideas from the paper are Two Smiles, Tw...
Bottle vs. Reframe: The Emotion Regulation Science Coaches Keep Getting Wrong
This episode examines James Gross' paper called "Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning are Bottle vs Reframe, The Three-Step Check, and The Emotional Toolbox. ...
The Armour Paradox: What Serial-Winning Coaches Know About Self-Compassion
This episode examines Hägglund et al.'s paper called "Wearing a Self-Compassion Suit May Offer a Performance Edge: A Qualitative Study of Serial-Winning High-Performance Coaches." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning...
One Size Fits No One: Why Mental Health Literacy Has to Match the Athlete in Front of You
Gorczynski et al.'s 2021 paper called "Developing Mental Health Literacy and Cultural Competence in Elite Sport." The big ideas from the paper that are relevant to coach learning are The Cultural Blindspot, The Invisible Athletes, and Don't Lea...
Season Finale Interview - Connecting the Dots with Dr Sasha Gollish
This conversation explores how coaching practice is deeply shaped by personal experience, reflection, and intentional learning, with Dr. Sasha Gollish emphasizing a person-centered approach that prioritizes developing humans over just athletes....