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Why Variation Might Be the Most Important Thing Missing from Your Practice

Why Variation Might Be the Most Important Thing Missing from Your Practice

Why Switching Things Up Might Be the Most Effective Practice Tool You’re Not Using

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Chadwick Becks
May 23, 2025
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If you’ve ever felt like your practice sessions are stuck on repeat—same exercises, same repertoire, same mistakes—it might be time to shake things up. Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly), I was introduced to variation in practice by Christopher Berg. Recently, I’ve been revisiting the idea through mostly new research papers I recently acquired.…

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