Should you train fatigued to perform fatigued? Balance training after HIIT produced smaller gains, and muscle fatigue impaired motor-skill learning on later days
Oct 27
3 min read
Injuries and lapses in technique often happen late in a game, a round or a long session, when athletes are tired. That has led to a popular idea: practise skills and injury-prevention drills while fatigued, so the body learns to hold its form when it matters. It sounds like specificity. The alternative view is that tired practice is poor practice, and that learning suffers when the body is exhausted. Two controlled studies tested the question directly.
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