EXSS2025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Water Skiing, Proprioception, Efference Copy

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Exercise and Sport Science
• Course: EXSS2025
• Professor: Ross Sanders

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Implications: additional practice is required after the skill is learnt to ensure consolidation & good retention when the skill will not be used shortly after learning: 2. Overlearning dynamic balance (melnik 1971): dynamic balance practice on a stabilometer, extra practice was beneficial but there were diminishing returns; so 50% overtraining is suffice before diminishing returns occurs. 1 hr per session/1 session per day 35 55 (over 12 weeks) 1 hr per session/2 sessions per day 43 75 (over 6 weeks) 2 hrs per session/1 session per day 43 (over 6 weeks) 2 hrs per session/2 sessions per day 50 80+ (over 3 weeks) Implications: avoid long sessions on the same skill, schedule a larger number of short sessions instead of a few long sessions, avoid massing practice sessions close together; distribute sessions with sufficient separation to allow memory consolidation to occur.