ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews how information provided before, during and after motor performance affects the quality of learning. The coach has a critical role to play in the learning process. The chapter has information processing stages that surround a single action (i.e. planning, execution, evaluation). It explores how practitioners might best provide this sort of extrinsic information based on four types of information transfer: instructions, cues, demonstrations and feedback. The three phases as a guide for discussing motor learning effects, overlaps and run in parallel are meso-cycle, micro-cycle, and macro-cycle. The new literature and ideas impacts on how information might effectively be delivered during practice to aid learning. Too much information leads to over-correction of movements or passive learning where the expectation of feedback about what was done wrong and how to correct it prevents self-evaluation and thus hinders development of the athletes own error-detecting and error-correcting mechanisms.
