The Importance of Visualization in Learning Motor Skills: Insights from Stanford

Imaging completion of a movement may be more important that the practicing part.

Existing theories focus on the practice part — the repetition — not the preparation.

“If I’m trying to learn a new motor skill, maybe this means that instead of absentmindedly practicing the task over and over, that I concentrate on planning really hard before each attempt," said Saurabh Vyas, a doctoral candidate in bioengineering at Stanford.

https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/team-scientists-explore-how-brain-trains-muscles-move
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