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MTB Online Practice Jam for the week of May 14
A place for Jammers who are practicing riding skills while improving practicing habits
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Where to find all my MTB Practice Lab Notes
Notes are Substack's version of Tweets. I've published 9 so far.
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How to reward yourself during MTB practice
There's a way to do it that you've likely never considered
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MTB Online Practice Jam for the week of May 7
A place for Jammers who are practicing riding skills while improving practicing habits
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Why does progress from building muscle memory sometimes disappear after a successful MTB practice session?
It's often a problem related to the myth of muscle memory. You have to train ugly.
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MTB skill plateaus are frustrating. Among the strategies to get unstuck: curiosity
Take a deeper dive into those times when it seems you just can't progress any further
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I jammed with the co-hosts of The Art of Mountain Biking podcast about how to practice
I gave them a C+ at the start and reluctantly an A- by the end.
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Assessing and developing your practice habit, Part 2
Creating an implementation intention for improving your motivation to practice is the most straightforward and effective step if you're just starting…
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Assessing and developing your MTB practice habit, Part 1
Take the two polls in the next 24 hours; Part 2 will be published shortly
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Science-based strategies to help you get better at practicing mountain biking skills
Recommendations
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The Art of Mountain Biking
The Art of Mountain BikingDanielle LeCourt
Range Widely
Range WidelyDavid Epstein
Skill Acquisition for Coaches
Skill Acquisition for Coaches Philip O'Callaghan
Hidden Brain
Hidden BrainShankar Vedantam
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Contact
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Books
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful LearningPeter C Brown, Mark A. McDaniel, and Henry L. Roediger
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your SkillsDaniel Coyle
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!Josh Kaufman
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad OnesJames Clear
Websites
The Learner Lab: The Science of Learning. Simplified.Trevor Ragan
Train UglyMotor Learning Skills + Practice/Drill Design by Trevor Ragan
Bulletproof MusicianOnline courses on how to practice more effectively and perform more like yourself, even under pressure
Podcasts
The Learner Lab PodcastDeep dives into topics that can help us become better learners. By Trevor Ragan
The Huberman Lab PodcastNeuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health
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