19 – Consolidation & Interference Between Training Sessions

What processes occur during the times when an athlete is not on
the field or court, that is there off-time between practices and
competitions.  How important are these rest periods for
learning sports skills?  Does it matter what an athlete does
during these periods?  Could doing something like playing
video games possibly interfere with the gains made during
practice?  


Links to articles discussed:


Leg muscle recruitment during cycling is less developed in
triathletes than cyclists despite matched cycling training loads


Practice With Sleep Makes Perfect: Sleep-Dependent Motor Skill
Learning


The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration


Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human
REM sleep


Watch and Learn: Seeing Is Better than Doing when Acquiring
Consecutive Motor Tasks


Do action video games improve perception and cognition?


Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of
Vision


 


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