I'm probably not training enough, maybe 2 or 3 times a week. Still, I feel like I should be improving.
From my experience with how I learned Kung Fu and how I had practice Piano when I was a kid. 2 or 3 times a week is not enough training time to be good at anything. 2 or 3 times a week won't make you good in Martial Arts and it won't make you good in learning how to play the Piano.
Remember this rule: When you think of your training, don't think of it as How many days your train.
Think of it as how many hours you put in.
I below I break down my training vs the training of some of my classmates.
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If you only go to class 3 times a week and you are my student, I would tell you that you need to either train longer sessions for the 2 or 3 days, or you need to train more days. Here's why.
1 hour class for 3 days a week = a total of 3 hours of training a week (probably less if part of that hour is spent on conditioning and stretching). This is not enough to get good in martial arts or to be good in playing the piano. It's probably not enough to be good in anything. Especially if 15 - 30 minutes is used specifically for conditioning. High school athletes train almost every day for more than 1 hour. Then they train more when they are at home either conditioning or practicing skills drills.
My Jow Ga classmates trained 2 to 3 times a week for a total of 3 hours week.. I trained 5 to 6 times a week for 2 or 3 hours a day. Some of my weekends were 3 to four hour sessions. So I'm I'm training 18 hours a week. Guess who became good enough to use Kung Fu..
3 hrs /week compared to
18 hrs /week.
12 hrs/ month compared to
72 hr/ month
72 hrs in 6 months compared to
432 hrs in 6 months
144 hrs /year compared to
864 hrs/year. I kept this up for 2 years. They were lucky to max out at 288 hours in 2 years.
I easily maxed out at 1728 hours in 2 years, because I didn't include total hours from my 4 hour sections nor the time that I spent training at home.
In the case of my classmates who trained 2 or 3 days, they got less than 144 hrs of training hours a year. I put in more training in 2 months than they did in 1 year. If I trained as if I was doing competition then I would be training at least 4 hours a day. I think competitive high school track was 3 hours of training after school. So I know if I'm not doing that much then I'm not doing enough to be competitive.
Just something to think about.
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