Practice to Less Energy

I just saw this article in the Daily Camera and wanted to pass it along. The article is titled: 'CU-Boulder: Practicing beyond perfection decreases body's energy use' and to me it's quite profound.

If this is really true, it means there's so even more benefit to practice that just the practice itself. Obviously the musclature in the body adapts to new movements and the brain remembers those as practice occurs, but this is another dimension. In some sense this actually seems obvious that since the practice is now engrained, it takes less to invoke that and to actually do because the body becomes so efficient.

The body really is pretty amazing!