In the Travlos (1999) study, more practice led to poorer retention and transfer test performance than less practice. A possible explanation for this result is that:
Too much practice of simple skills may result
to poor learning because learners may not continue to engage in appropriate
amounts of cognitive efforts, which may result in decrease capability to
remember movement and poorer transfer test performance. It is recommended to have
less and variable practice as to not over learn and achieve better performance.
