Research shows that you improve more when you take breaks (during breaks). Breaks are part of training

【Turns out “frequent breaks,” not during practice, improve skills.】
https://nazology.net/archives/91085

・In 2021, a research team from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NINDS) reported a study showing that frequent breaks are more effective at improving the practice of learning a new skill, such as piano.

・The study shows that improvement in a skill does not occur during practice, but only during breaks.

・The study found that while practice did not improve at all during practice, it did improve after each 10-second break.

・Progress was greatest during the first 11 of 35 breaks and leveled off thereafter.

・Short breaks while awake were found to be more effective in increasing progress than overnight breaks (even second breaks were effective).

・The ultra-fast replay of the practice session in the brain during breaks was found to be a key factor in skill improvement.

・The researchers concluded that the three brain regions of sensory-motor, hippocampus, and entorhinal cortex closely exchange information during breaks, compressing and integrating the content of the practice, thereby producing improvement effects.

The above is a quote from the article

Breaks are part of training

During the high school baseball season, when I see high school baseball players in action, I imagine that they must have gone through rigorous repetitive practice every day.

Practicing 1,000 knocks or other practices that make them do it until they can do it may be commonplace for the Showa generation,

As mentioned above, with the latest knowledge, it would be better not to make them do such things.

As for the muscle theory of everything,

I am the one who immediately thinks of it in connection with muscles.

As in the case of this research, I think the story that “you will improve more if you take a break” is the same as the story of muscles.

Muscles will break down if they are used continuously without a break,

If you train your muscles properly, they will become more powerful after a break (after muscle soreness).

Once again,

I would like to keep this in mind when developing new skills.

Also, a point of personal interest,

It stated, “Progress was greatest during the first 11 rest days out of the 35 rest days and then leveled off.”

Currently, I do not do strength training every day, but increase the intensity of my strength training, and do it every couple of days, with rest days in between. (In terms of the research above, this is more correct.)

But should the intensity of muscle training be the same all the time? When should I increase the intensity of my strength training? I was wondering.

That’s what I was thinking, and then I found out the information above,

If you mean that progress is greatest after the first 11 rests, I personally thought that my strength training intensity should be increased by 11 rests, as a guide. ^^ (Of course, I know it varies from person to person.)

Information is more important than getting it, but how you put that information to work for you is more important.

That’s what I have always thought, and this case may be one example where I was able to put that into practice. ^^.

I hope you too will try to make use of the information in your own way.

See you then

There are times when you don’t feel growth while doing something, but at some point you realize you can do it. This study seems to prove this phenomenon. After all, continuity is power. (Continuation with breaks)