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9. Skill Decay Over Time | A 2025 Meta-Analysis
We often hear that “you never forget how to ride a bike.”But in sport, that saying hides an important qualifier.
In this episode of the Coretex Athletic Review, Evan Kurylo examines a recent 2025 meta-analytic review on procedural skill retention and decay to explore what actually happens to athletic skills during periods of non-use or intermittent use.
Rather than asking whether skills disappear, the research asks a more precise question: which aspects of performance are most vulnerable when a skill isn’t being used regularly?
The answer turns out to be less about forgetting and more about…
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