Highlights•Expectations for positive experience/outcomes benefit motor performance and
learning.•Conditions that support performer autonomy benefit motor performance and …

Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

In the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016), three factors are
postulated to facilitate motor performance and learning: Enhanced expectancies (EE) for …

In the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning [Wulf, G., & Lewthwaite, R.(2016). Optimizing
performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning: The OPTIMAL theory of …

Attention and Motor Skill Learning explores how a person's focus of attention affects motor
performance and, in particular, the learning of motor skills. It synthesizes the knowledge …

Without doubt, motor behavior is subject to a variety of social-cognitive-affective influences
(Lewthwaite & Wulf, 2010a). For instance, the instructions or feedback given to learners not …

Skilled movement entails learned motor patterns that are produced with a high degree of
accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. The classic definition of skill by Guthrie (1952) …

Youth athletes are ideal candidates for novel therapeutic motor learning interventions that
leverage the plasticity of the central nervous system to promote desirable biomechanical …

Enhanced expectancies and autonomy-support through self-controlled practice conditions
form the motivation pillar of OPTIMAL theory [Wulf, G., & Lewthwaite, R.(2016). Optimizing …

Abstract STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROFESSIONALS COMMONLY DEPEND ON
EVIDENCE TO GUIDE “WHAT THEY COACH”(EG, PROGRAMMING), BUT THE SAME …