How much does an athlete need to practice to become truly elite? What should it involve?  Should it be fun?  Can everyone become a great athlete if they just practice enough?  In this episode, I focus on the most well- known theory in this area called Deliberate Practice, popularized as the 10,000 hour rule.

Technically Challenged: Review of the Gazepoint GP3 Eye tracker and software http://www.gazept.com/product/gazepoint-gp3-eye-tracker/

Links to articles discussed:

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Outliers: The Story of Success

Wrestling with the nature of expertise: a sport specific test of Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Romer's (1993) theory of deliberate practice

The Developmental Activities of Elite Ice Hockey Players

Annual age-grouping and athlete development: a meta-analytical review of relative age effects in sport

Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Paul Collins Beat – Working Too Hard

Josh Woodward – Effortless

The Willing – Better

The Ettes – Crown of Age

Beans & Bullets - Love Machine

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