Ep17 Exploring Behavior Analysis in Fitness with Wes Lowery

Atypical Behavior Analyst

Interested in levelling up your athletic prowess? Or maybe you’ve found yourself in a coaching position and want to improve your players’ performance? In this talk, Wes Lowery from TeamABA University, discusses the 4 C’s of precision athletics: Collaboration, Contingency, Combos, and Competition. He also describes how he incorporates the concept of “invisible antecedents” to teach how past events and behaviors can impact future behaviors with the goal to identify replacement behaviors and teach new contingencies.

Learning Objectives:

1. Select the possible “invisible antecedents” that can affect programs and identify ways to mitigate these contingencies.

2. Identify potential motivating operations that can impact the choices of someone’s diet and/or fitness routine.

3. Recognize the importance of collaboration with other professionals in the health and fitness area.

Take-Aways:

- While we tend to look at immediate antecedents when analyzing behavior, sometimes the events that happened earlier in the day or week can be more impactful. For example- staying up late to watch a movie and snack can disrupt future workouts, eating habits, and sleep schedules.

- Competition can be a powerful MO for athletes. For some, it may just be about playing the sport a better, but for others scholarships can be on the line which substantially enhances their motivation.

- It is important to remember the scope of your own practice and we should encourage reaching out and collaborating with other professionals. Team work makes the dream work!

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