Table 1.

Alive movement problem setting checklist.

Does the movement problem presented to the athlete in practice:
1. Keep the problem-solution relationship intact?
2. Present a task disposition representative of the competitive performance environment?
3. Contain relevant sources of information for the athlete to regulate their movements?
4. Keep perceptions, cognitions, and actions deeply intertwined?
5. Maintain a practical and relevant goal as an intention to channel the movement solution?
6. Allow for the continuous (re)organization of system degrees of freedom?
7. Require the athlete to authentically connect to the problem in their own unique way?
8. Maintain a certain level of unpredictability, requiring the athlete to actively make decisions as needed?
9. Present emerging and decaying affordances?
10. Change in some meaningful way each time it is faced (i.e., repetition without repetion)?
The more questions you answer “yes” to, the more likely it is that an integrated movement solution will emerge that is functionally fit for the peculiar movement problem, guiding the athlete to become one with the movement problem.
If you answered “no” to any of the above questions, how can you adjust the movement problem by manipulating relevant constraints to make it more alive?

Pertinent questions for coaching practitioners to ask when designing alive movement problems in practice for the athlete's pursuit of organizing functionally fit movement solutions transferable to competition.