Types of Practice

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What is a massed practice?
Continuous practice session with no breaks.
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When is a massed practice best used?
When a skill is discrete, simple, in a closed environment and the performer is an expert
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What are the advantages of massed practice?
Promotes fitness, skill becomes habitual, motor programmes can be stored easily, quick, useful for autonomous learners
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What are the disadvantages of massed practice?
Can produce fatigue, danger of negative transfer, high demand, performers need to be motivated
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What is a distributed practice?
A session which involves intervals and breaks
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When is distributed practice best used?
When the skill is continuous, open, externally paced and the performers are unfit or novices
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What are the advantages of distributed practice?
Intervals give opportunities for feedback, intervals give performers a time for rest, good for novices, coaches can offer motivation during intervals, makes dangerous activities safer
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What are the disadvantages of distributed practice?
Time consuming, not as useful for experts/autonomous learners, danger of negative transfer
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What is varied practice?
Where drills are changed so players can adapt to a changing environment
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What is varied practice best used?
When a skill is open, externally paced and continuous, and the environment is unpredictable
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What are the advantages of varied practice?
Allows players to adapt to changing conditions, builds up schema, maintains motivation
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What are the disadvantages of varied practice?
Time consuming, danger of negative transfer, might place unnecessary demands on players if too many things to focus on
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What is mental practice?
An athlete goes through a performance in their mind without movement
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When is mental practice best used?
Prior to activity and during warm-ups
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What are the benefits of mental practice?
Improves confidence, lowers anxiety, stimulates muscle receptors so player is more alert, can be done when player is injured, builds motor programmes
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