Using Desirable Difficulties in Sports
Dr. Fran Pirozzolo provides several examples of how he has designed practice to be more difficult, yet more effective, than traditional methods. He also discusses the critical difference between...
View ArticleChallenging Practice Leads to Effective Learning
Dr. Fran Pirozzolo talks about how traditional methods of practice are not optimal for learning, and discusses alternative methods that are much more effective. Practicing in distraction-free...
View ArticleThe Problem with Rote Rehearsal
Rote rehearsal refers to practicing something over and over again, and it’s often the strategy of choice for students and athletes. As Dr. Elizabeth Bjork (UCLA) discusses in this video, however, rote...
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YOU ARE THE COACH with Lee Waddington
The Boot Room (Issue 12) visits Burnley FC’s academy to interview a selection of U10s and U11s soccer players about what they enjoyed the most about coaching sessions and if they were the coach for...
View ArticleInterleaved Practice
Suppose you want to improve your golf game—say, driving and putting. If you’re like most people, you would practice all of your driving and then all of your putting (or vice versa) before calling it a...
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Find Your Best Challenge Point
The truth about improving your golf game with Dr. Mark Guadagnoli and Dr. Chris Bertram by GolfScienceLab.com
View ArticleDoes Practice make perfect? It depends on how you do it
You remember the old joke. A young, obviously confused out-of-towner stops an old man on a street in Manhattan. “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” asks the young fellow. “Practice, practice, practice,...
View ArticleWeak performance on road sometimes all in your head
ONE OF THE main lessons to be learned from our studies of the home-court/field effect is that an athlete’s (or coach’s) own “cognitive appraisal” of a situation, event or incident is the key factor in...
View ArticleGolf Academy: Practicing with Pressure
Why we love this the video points out the very important fact that practicing in “distraction-free and pressure-free environments” might feel easy, but will lead to worse performance during...
View ArticlePerfect Practice for Softball (And Sports)
A simple change to practice can make a difference This article was originally published in Psychology Today on Nate Kornell’s blog, Everybody is Stupid Except You Growing up playing sports, I have...
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