Types of Practice

Massed

• Promote fitness, time efficient

• Skills become automatic and consistent

• Fatigue and possible negative transfer

• Drills must be simple

Distributed

• Allows rest and recovery

• Feedback of practice

• Motivation and feedback

• Mental practice

• Time consuming

• Possible negative feedback

Varied

• Learn to adapt to change

• Builds up subroutines

• Fun

• Adapt existing skills from memory store called ‘schema’

• Many things to focus on and time consuming

Fixed

• Improves consistency

• Reduce pressure on the performer

• Boring and repetitive

• Motivation needed