🔗 Research Paper

**📄 National Library of Medicine**: Mind over body: Creating an external focus for sport skills

📖 About

Overview

This 2021 research paper examines how focusing attention externally (on movement effects) versus internally (on body movements) impacts motor performance and learning. The study specifically investigates whether thinking of body parts as objects can improve performance compared to focusing on the body parts themselves.

Key Applications to Swing Genius

1. External Focus Benefits

• Improved movement accuracy
• Enhanced movement form
• More efficient movement patterns
• Reduced muscular activity
• Greater movement fluidity
• Better performance sustainability

2. Theoretical Support for Swing Genius Design

Constrained Action Hypothesis

• External focus promotes automatic control processes
• Internal focus disrupts natural motor control
• Validates Swing Genius's emphasis on external visual cues

Goal-Action Coupling

• External focus strengthens neural connections between movement goals and execution