Sports periodization has traditionally focused on the exercise aspect of athletic preparation,
while neglecting the integration of other elements that can impact an athlete's readiness for …

Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

Objectives The validity of sporting talent is hotly contested by those working, watching, and
participating in sport in its variety of forms. Despite considerable research attention to …

The ability to anticipate and to make decisions is crucial to skilled performance in many
sports. We examined the role of and interaction between the different perceptual-cognitive …

The purpose of the present review was to provide a theoretical understanding of the learning
advantages underlying a self-controlled practice context through the tenets of the self …

With an array of critical and engaging pedagogical features, the fourth edition of Motor
Learning and Control for Practitioners offers the best practical introduction to motor learning …

Unlike physical training, skill acquisition does not currently utilise periodisation to plan,
monitor and evaluate programs. Development of a skill acquisition periodisation framework …

In this paper, we discuss a variety of ways in which practising motor actions by means of
motor imagery (MI) can be enhanced via synchronous action observation (AO), that is, by …

Recent studies examining the role of self-controlled feedback have shown that learners ask
for feedback after what they believe was a “good” rather than “poor” trial. Also, trials on …

Action observation training and motor imagery training have independently been studied
and considered as an effective training strategy for improving motor skill learning. However …