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4/5/2025

What Is The Movement Solution Space?

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The movement solution space in athletic development refers to the range of viable movement strategies an athlete can use to solve a physical task or movement challenge—while still being effective, efficient, and adaptable. It’s not about finding one “perfect” movement, but about developing a wide repertoire of functional motor options.
 
What Is a Movement Solution?
 
In sport, athletes are constantly solving movement problems. Each solution is a specific coordination pattern of joints, muscles, timing, forces, and velocities to accomplish that task.
 
What Is the Solution Space?
 
This is the set of all possible movement strategies that can successfully achieve the goal. Think of it like a cloud of movement possibilities. The novice level has a narrow solution space (few ways to move). The elite athletes tend to have a broad solution space (many ways to move & adapt under changing conditions).
 
Why It Matters in Athletic Development:
  • Athletes with a larger solution space can adapt to unpredictable conditions (e.g., a sudden opponent move).
  • Injury Resilience: If one pathway is compromised (due to fatigue or micro-injury), they can shift to another.
  • Performance: They can fine-tune movement strategies for speed, force, efficiency, or precision based on context.
 
How Coaches Develop It:
  • Constraints-led approach: Change task/ environment/ individual constraints to encourage exploration.
  • Variability: Encourage slight changes in technique, timing, angles, or surfaces.
  • Small sided games: Require decisions and movement improvisation.
  • Force development (resistance training): Improve physical characteristics to enable more solutions.
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    Jamie Smith is a proud husband and father, passionate about all things relating to athletic development and a life long learner, who is open to unorthodox ideas as long they are beneficial to his athletes. 

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