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By now you most likely are getting some appreciation of the many and varied applications of wearable resistance (WR). One area that is getting some research interest is the use of WR as a motor learning tool. An example of this is Karl Trounson a PhD student at Victoria University in association with the Western Bulldogs football club in Melbourne, Australia, who is using a combined S&C and skill acquisition approach to understand how WR can lead to improvements in athletic movements. Specifically he is investigating how WR can be used to functionally vary or perturb athletes’ co-ordination patterns to accelerate the learning of performance.

At the heart of the approach is that WR can be used as a kinesthetic learning tool, which is advantageous for athletes who prefer to "feel" movement technique changes rather than just being told. I talked around this previously, when I mentioned implicit and explicit learning. The use of WR as a kinesthetic and implicit learning tool, is an exciting offshoot application of this technology. For greater detail on how to use WR as a motor learning tool, I refer you to a Blog Karl has written.

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