When Does Your Practice Stop
When do you stop practicing?
When you die?
I bet by now you're getting conditioned to
think this is a trick question. It's not.
There is a time when more practice gives
you fewer results. In economics it's called
the law of diminishing returns. It's that
place where more and more work yields
less and less productivity.
As an example from the NCAA tournament
look at John Calipari's Memphis Tigers.
This season they shot 61% from the free
throw line. Not so great. And I don't have
to tell you that can be a big Achilles heal in
a one-and-done tournament.
All you need is a big physical team that
forces a deliberate half-court game and is
deep enough to foul you often, and you
can be in trouble.
Undoubtedly Coach C. has worked on free
throw shooting till everybody was blue in
the face, but it didn't seem to make a
difference.
Fortunately though he took the crazy
advice of a sports psychologist and had
his team stop practicing free throws,
period. Instead he had every one of them
go home and visualize making ten straight
or more every night with feeling.
Do you want to guess what they shot their
last game? It didn't always look pretty,
but 82%.
Coincidence. I think not. They just needed
to believe and visualization helped. I'm not
saying to quit practicing free throws, but
you might need to if you're frustrated, and
I'd at least try adding in the visualizations
if I were you.
Shoot For The Stars,
P.S. This whole idea was floated to me by
my friend Coach Tim Kauppinen in his
daily email newsletter.
Tim specializes in training athletes to run
their fastest and be their quickest. He also
teaches the average joe and ex-athletes
how to stay fit without slaving away for
hours. Isn't science great.
Every coach in the world is looking for
speed these days so I recommend you
get on his email list to be the best you
can be. You can get started 24/7 at:
http://www.makesyoufast.com/
Note: This email is protected by copyright
with all rights reserved, but you do have
permission to copy and use it in its
entirety as long as the links are intact and
the contact information is included.
Copyright 2006,2007 Delker Enterprises, Inc.
Coach Dean Delker
8413 SW 4th Place
Gainesville, FL 32607
352-494-6572
dean@deandelker.com
www.deandelker.com
When you die?
I bet by now you're getting conditioned to
think this is a trick question. It's not.
There is a time when more practice gives
you fewer results. In economics it's called
the law of diminishing returns. It's that
place where more and more work yields
less and less productivity.
As an example from the NCAA tournament
look at John Calipari's Memphis Tigers.
This season they shot 61% from the free
throw line. Not so great. And I don't have
to tell you that can be a big Achilles heal in
a one-and-done tournament.
All you need is a big physical team that
forces a deliberate half-court game and is
deep enough to foul you often, and you
can be in trouble.
Undoubtedly Coach C. has worked on free
throw shooting till everybody was blue in
the face, but it didn't seem to make a
difference.
Fortunately though he took the crazy
advice of a sports psychologist and had
his team stop practicing free throws,
period. Instead he had every one of them
go home and visualize making ten straight
or more every night with feeling.
Do you want to guess what they shot their
last game? It didn't always look pretty,
but 82%.
Coincidence. I think not. They just needed
to believe and visualization helped. I'm not
saying to quit practicing free throws, but
you might need to if you're frustrated, and
I'd at least try adding in the visualizations
if I were you.
Shoot For The Stars,
P.S. This whole idea was floated to me by
my friend Coach Tim Kauppinen in his
daily email newsletter.
Tim specializes in training athletes to run
their fastest and be their quickest. He also
teaches the average joe and ex-athletes
how to stay fit without slaving away for
hours. Isn't science great.
Every coach in the world is looking for
speed these days so I recommend you
get on his email list to be the best you
can be. You can get started 24/7 at:
http://www.makesyoufast.com/
Note: This email is protected by copyright
with all rights reserved, but you do have
permission to copy and use it in its
entirety as long as the links are intact and
the contact information is included.
Copyright 2006,2007 Delker Enterprises, Inc.
Coach Dean Delker
8413 SW 4th Place
Gainesville, FL 32607
352-494-6572
dean@deandelker.com
www.deandelker.com
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