Welcome to Coach Cast, the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre’s podcast for athletics coaches. Coach Casts are designed to take both simple and complex topics from the various fields of coaching theory and explain them in an understandable fashion to coaches of all levels. Please feel free to seek more information on today’s topic by referring to the sources referenced in this script.

The feedback given from coach to athlete is a critical interaction in the process of athletic improvement. Two ways of providing feedback are discussed and compared in this Coach Cast: Knowledge of Results and Knowledge of Performance. The former method, which centres on the timing and measuring of the result of some exercise, is very commonly used. However, the latter method, which focuses more on giving feedback on a particular technical or emotional aspect of performance, can also be very effective.

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