Monthly Archive: May 2012

Break Time

This may be your happy place for a little while but don't plan on an extended stay.

     As much as fitness is a part of my life, I certainly didn’t miss working out during a 5-day forced lay-off to allow some stitches to heal on my hip.  Granted, I was very busy during that stretch so I hardly noticed that I wasn’t going to the gym.  And I knew that more …

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Perception-Action Coupling: Part 2

Andre Agassi's gaze is an amazing example of selective attention.

     In the previous post, Perception-Action Coupling: Part 1, I spoke about how there is a cyclical relationship between what we perceive and the movements that we make. I distinguished between tightly-coupled PACs, such as hitting a home run—the skilled batter’s swing accurately matching his perception of the incoming ball—and loosely-coupled PACs, when a batter …

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