Bio:Shawn Myszka is the Pro Performance Director of Explosive Edge Athletics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is entrusted with the personal consulting of countless NFL players who seek him out to take their performance to the limits of their potential. Shawn is a former National-level competitive bodybuilder who has become a sought-after clinician and leader in the field of sport-specific power development, the transfer of training to sport performance, and developing mastery in the movement of athletes at all levels of qualification. At the beginning of 2014, Shawn introduced a new brand into the industry, Movement Mastery (www.optimizemovement.com), which has the purpose of helping training professionals of all kinds to more fully understand the process involved in attaining more optimal movement for athletes in all sporting disciplines. He also runs a football-specific movement blog, Football Beyond the Stats (www.footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com), in which he breaks down the movement patterns & mechanics of the top performers in the sport plus offers insight regarding training principles for football performance.
 
Show Notes:Websites and Social Media Links:
Website – optimizemovement.comBlog – Football Beyond The StatsFacebook – Shawn MyszkaTwitter - @MovementMiyagiInstagram - movementmiyagiYouTube – Shawn Myszka
Books Mentioned:
Supertraining
 
Sean’s Book Recommendations
Coordination and Regulation of Movement – Out of Print ☹
Dexterity and its Development
Non-Linear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition 
Dynamics in Skill Acquisition: A Constraints Led Approach
 
Books Mentioned by Robbie
Developing Sport Expertise
Biology of Belief
Dynamics of Skill Acquisition: A Constraints Led Approach
Resources Mentioned:
ALTIS 360
Joseph Chilton Pearce James Gibson’s – Ecological ModelKarl Newell’s – Constraint Led Approach (task, environment, and organism)Professor Keith Davids – Dynamics of Skill Acquisition
Podcasts Mentioned:Physical Preparation Podcast – Mike Robertson
Documentary Mentioned:
It Might Get Loud
 
Time-Line:0:00 – 0:48 – Robbie’s Intro
0:49 – 4:48 - Shawn gives us his background
4:49 – 7:41 -  Robbie asks Shawn about his biggest influences on him both personally and professionally7:42 – 11:16 - Robbie and Shawn speak about Shawn’s presentation “Repetition without Repetition” that he gave at the November 2017 ALTIS Apprentice Coach Program (ACP). Shawn also mentions how there is still a long way to go within skill acquisition research.11:17 – 12:24 - Robbie mentions the work of Bruce Abernathy in a chapter from the book “Developing Sport Expertise” that addresses the same research issues mentioned by Shawn in the previous point12:25 – 18:35 - Robbie asks Shawn – what are the good and not so good things that he currently see’s within the sports preparation profession, and with the not so good things that he sees what solutions would he offer
18:36 – 21:22 - Robbie talks about how the concept of certainty can impact a coach’s bias within the training process, and that coaches need to accept that humans learn and progress in a non-linear manner 21:23 – 22:57 - Robbie speaks about the impact of Bruce Lipton’s work on bringing an awareness and an appreciation for epigenetics, which helped Robbie to understanding the inseparable relationship of the organism from its environment. This helped Robbie to understand his study of skill acquisition more deeply.22:58 – 31:19 - Robbie asks Shawn to tell us about his Robert Frost moment(s)31:20 – 41:50 - Robbie asks Shawn about his thoughts on making athletes too dependent on their coaches feedback, and asks Shawn to speak about facilitating athletes to achieve ownership of their movement41:51 – 43:35 - Robbie shares a story from Tom Willmott (A snowboard coach), which was presented in Rich Masters chapter (chapter 9) in the book “Developing Sport Expertise”, which address implicit learning. Robbie goes on to ask Shawn has he looked into any animal training models and implicit