To master any physical skill,
Whether it’s ballet,
Playing a musical instrument,
Or throw a baseball,
Practice is required.
Practice is the repetition of acts and actions to improve them,
And helps us to perform these acts easily and quickly.
So what does exercise do in our brains to make us good at doing something?
Our brains contain two types of nerve tissue:
Gray material
White matter.
Gray matter processes information in the brain,
By directing signals and sensory stimuli to nerve cells,
White matter often consists of fatty tissues and nerve fibers.
To move our bodies, must
The information is transmitted from the gray matter present in the brain,
Down the spinal cord,
Through a series of nerve fibers called “axes”
To reach our muscles.
So how can practice and repetition affect the inner workings of our brains?
The axes in the white material
Wrapped in a fatty substance called “Myelin”.
This cover, ie, myelin, or sheath, can be changed by practice.
Myelin is similar to the insulator found in electrical cables.
Where it prevents the loss of energy from electrical signals used by the brain,
To move more efficiently along nerve pathways.
Some recent studies suggest that mice replicate physical movement.
Increases the layers of the myelin sheath that isolates the axes.
The presence of many layers, means large isolation of all parts of the axis chains,
Thus forming something like a highway to move information
Which connects the brain to the muscles.
So, while a lot of athletes and artists
Their success returns to the memory of their muscles,
The muscles have no memory in themselves.
In fact, the production of myelin nerve pathways
Is the one who gives these athletes and artists a distinctive performance,
Through more rapid and efficient neural pathways.
There are many theories that try
Determine the number of hours, days, and even years of practice
Which we need to master any skill.
In fact, we do not have a magic number,
We know that mastering a skill is not about the number of practice hours.
But also on the quality and effectiveness of the practice.
Effective practice is consistent,
Focused,
Content or vulnerabilities are targeted
Located at the person’s current limits.
Therefore, if effective practice is the key,
How do we use training time?
Here are some tips:
Focus on the task.
Minimize potential interference from your computer or TV
And activate the flight mode in the phone.
In one study, researchers observed 260 students studying.
in the middle,
Note that these students are able to focus on one task for only six minutes.
Laptops, smart phones, especially Facebook
They were sources of distraction.
Start slowly or with a slow motion.
Consistency is built on repetition, whether it is true or false
If you gradually increase the speed of good duplicates,
You have a good chance of doing them properly.
Also, frequent repetition with some rest periods is common
When the professional elite.
Studies show that a number of athletes, musicians and professional dancers,
They spend 50-60 hours a week training on activities related to their work.
Many of them divide the time of effective training
On several sessions of training per day for limited periods.
Finally, imagine your training with all the details.
It is somewhat surprising that a number of studies suggest it
Once you have a physical movement,
They can only be improved by imagining them.
In a study, 144 basketball players were divided into two groups.
Group A trains to throw the ball
Group B is mentally trained, that is to say, they are throwing the ball.
Two weeks later, during the evaluation process,
Show middle- and professional-level players in both groups
Almost the same improvement.
While science gradually shows us the secrets of the brain,
Our understanding of effective training will develop for the better.
At the moment, effective training remains our best tool
To transcend our personal boundaries,
To achieve new horizons,
Improving our capabilities.
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