Professional athletes do a significant amount of conventional strength training.
Professional musicians practice scales, arpeggios, and pieces called “studies” in addition to their concert pieces, and even do hand mobility exercises. “Studies” are usually short, boring pieces that challenge the limits of dexterity.
These conventional, supplementary strategies push capabilities beyond those required at the time of performance, ensuring that the performer has spare capacity, not operating at their limits when it counts. Also, many exercises have a complementary nature, such as athletes strengthening muscles that balance their physique and prevent injuries.
Overall, by observing the time-tested training methods of high-functioning professionals from in fiercely competitive fields, I think the advice in this post is mostly incorrect :)
High-functioning professionals don’t learn to restrain bulls by actually trying to restrain a bull on day one, that’s how you get gored. You look at the task, decompose it into subskills, drill the subskills until you can do them better than you will need to in the real task, then practice stringing them together, and then you go restrain bulls and catch lobsters.
An interesting idea, but I notice that:
Professional athletes do a significant amount of conventional strength training.
Professional musicians practice scales, arpeggios, and pieces called “studies” in addition to their concert pieces, and even do hand mobility exercises. “Studies” are usually short, boring pieces that challenge the limits of dexterity.
These conventional, supplementary strategies push capabilities beyond those required at the time of performance, ensuring that the performer has spare capacity, not operating at their limits when it counts. Also, many exercises have a complementary nature, such as athletes strengthening muscles that balance their physique and prevent injuries.
Overall, by observing the time-tested training methods of high-functioning professionals from in fiercely competitive fields, I think the advice in this post is mostly incorrect :)
High-functioning professionals don’t learn to restrain bulls by actually trying to restrain a bull on day one, that’s how you get gored. You look at the task, decompose it into subskills, drill the subskills until you can do them better than you will need to in the real task, then practice stringing them together, and then you go restrain bulls and catch lobsters.