That's a really extreme way of looking at it but the point is, if a student trains more hours per week instead of less hours per week, does that make the student impatient? After all, in most cases training more hours a week will enable you to improve your skill in fewer weeks than if you train less hours a week.
I'll bet you're one of those jerks who "uses the metric system" too
I was using small numbers because I wanted to avoid what you're describing, about excessive training resulting in less improvement. Training only one hour a week or only three hours a week, you're not going to experience diminishing returns in most cases. If you were, say, training forty hours a week, 8 hours a day, then you would most likely be experiencing diminishing returns and you would want to cut back, otherwise you will most likely burn yourself out and not progress at all and you could very likely hurt yourself. But most people can handle three hours a week, there might be some exceptions such as people with certain medical conditions or people who are really out of shape but the vast majority of people can train three hours a week and not hurt themselves or have diminishing returns.
Depending on the week, I will sometimes only do 1 hour a week of Goju Ryu Karate. That is because I am also training in Gracie Jiu Jitsu and I already have a big background in a different style of Karate and I also go to the gym and lift weights. The Goju Ryu I just do to add more to my knowledge and to adopt some of their techniques to my style. For instance, from my experience Goju Ryu has some of the best blocks and a really solid defense.
No three hours is not much, at least its not much for somebody when they get more advanced, but as I said in previous posts, the reason why Im using small numbers for the training hours is to avoid getting into too much discussion about burnout. There is a point where more is less but for most people it would not be three hours a week.
Keep in mind that theoretically you should be practicing still on your off days. That prevents having to relearn the material. I've been going only about once a week the last few months, but I practice every night, so I'm not having to relearn anything and still see progress.
I think this also depends on how long you've been training for. As a beginner, you need to be getting guidance on everything, so not a whole lot can be done by yourself. By the time you're more experienced, you should be able to do most of the solo forms/drills/techs by yourself, without losing it. If not the new stuff (if there even is new stuff that you learned..sometimes there's not), then at the very least improving on your fundamentals.
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I believe it goes back to some earlier threads where he was talking about training more in order to progress faster and someone (I don’t remember who) was making comments about that indicating a lack of patience. They were probably weren’t talking about 1 vs 3 hours of practice though.
In most cases - in my experience - someone training more hours simply has more enthusiasm and/or dedication. Their training is a higher priority, which is a neutral statement in the grand scheme of things.
Most adults don't seem to do any training outside of class, either. With grappling, I can kind of understand it, but I find it true of strikes and all other drills, as well.
hmm, how are you measuring improvement? if you mean kata, then maybe, if your talking g about punching or kicking power, speed of reactions co ordination and other important things then it's a, ot less tied to hours of practise and much more a progression that cant really be hurried , they require Neurological and physical changes that take their own sweet time, to that extent then 10 mins here and there to keep the adaptations happening are quite ,likely optimal and certainly no worse as only a few minutes of your hour class five times a week are making any differance. so at best you e waisted 3 hours of your week,
