Using Practice Challenge to Optimise Learning

Desirable difficulty is one of the most researched and least applied concepts in sport. This course unpacks the mechanisms behind practice challenge: how the right level of difficulty accelerates learning, why making it easier can slow it down, and what that means for how you structure drills, progressions, and repetition. After this course: Calibrate practice difficulty in a way that genuinely extends your athletes' capabilities — rather than building confidence at a level they've already mastered.