79 – Designing Affective Practice I: Using Pressure to Aid Motor Learning

Why is it important to include emotional context in practice? A look at the evidence for the beneficial effects of anxiety in training and guidelines for implementing pressure training.

Articles/links:

The dynamics of expertise acquisition in sport: The role of affective learning design

Training with mild anxiety may prevent choking under higher levels of anxiety

Perceptual-motor learning benefits from increased stress and anxiety

Practice with anxiety improves performance, but only when anxious: Evidence for the specificity of practice hypothesis The Effects of High- and Low-Anxiety Training on the Anticipation Judgments of Elite Performers

Igniting the Pressure Acclimatization Training Debate: Contradictory Pilot-Study Evidence from Australian Football

The Effect of Manipulating Training Demands and Consequences on Experiences of Pressure in Elite Netball

Differential effects of task-specific practice on performance in a simulated penalty kick under high-pressure

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