Preparing For Athletic Performance: Some Science

Interesting podcast episode on how learning, consciousness, neuroplasticity, and preparation for movement all interplay.

show description: “Revisiting the topic of calibration in direct learning, with a specific focus on why we lose calibration when not practicing. The blessing and curse of having a high learning rate.

“Articles:

Better with each throw—a study on calibration and warm-up decrement of real-time consecutive basketball free throws in elite NBA athletes

A serial-position curve in high-performance darts: the effect of visuomotor calibration on throwing accuracy

Why Professional Athletes Need a Prolonged Period of Warm-Up and Other Peculiarities of Human Motor Learning”

543 – Why Do We Lose Calibration of Perceptual-Motor Skill so Quickly and What Can We Do About It?