Read in a thread today, that someone plays 40 hours a week, accumalitive of training/games and everything. How many hours p/week does everyone else here play? I play roughly, on average 7-8 hours a week.
Quality over quanitity. 3 hours a day is really pushing it LNSC. Get the rest you need everyone. When it comes to game day, you should be feeling fresh.
On games played 16 to under 19 on a top club playing in the best division of the best league. During the whole year not just a smaller season. The prevailing judgement of where I come from is about 40 matches. Which means your total minutes of real game time is less then that. Have others players on the team besides the starters. On training some adult leagues like the A league here train 5 days a week. I am not a believer in that for a lot of reasons. Body needs time to recover.
the reason i try to get in 3hrs is because my old coach said u need 10,000 hrs to be pro at any sport so 3hrs a day for about 10yrs since im 13 should work out rite?
Again - quality over quanitity. Ignore what your coach said, he's wrong wherever he heard that, though it's probably some kind of folklore expression and he's taken it literally. I don't know what kind of training/playing you're doing and what intensity, but doing 3 hours a day will almost always mean that those last 2 or so hours will be lathargic, unmotivaed efforts. Furthermore you'll be feeling lathargic the next day likely from 3 hours of football, so now you'll have 3 hours of lathergic, unmotivated efforts when you practice. Hopefully you're getting the point. Have short, planned, intensive sessions and get the rest you need through the week.
A couple hours a day, it's pretty boring kicking the ball of a wall or standing outside juggling or dribbling. Atleast my first club season starts in September
The most I have played was 5 competitive games a week for about 2-3 months, gets you totally worn down. Nowadays, I play pick up/practice 2x a week, and a game on Sundays; roughly about 9 hours of playing.
maybe around 6 depending on pickup and if I have time and can meet up with people at intramural fields to play. Wish I could play more than I do
There is only one youth club where I live and we meet once a week for two hours. I don't think that's enough so I try to practice every day for half an hour to an hour. It isn't a long time but I make every moment individual practice count.
These days it's just pickup games, but when I was competing at college level it was 2 hours a day, 5 days a week. In recent years, the trend with professional teams in season seems to be toward having shorter, more focused sessions, something like 90 minutes a day in season and 60 minutes the day before a match. The rationales are: 1) most fitness work happened in preseason, and if players need extra fitness work, they don't need to use team training time; and 2) by the time they're pros, players aren't going to develop technique that much any more.
prob. around 12 hours of practice a week and then one game on sundays. so i guess around 13.5 hours a week.
i don't know how ya'll play so much. I have two games a week and can barely walk the next day. I barely recover in time for the next game. I wish I could go out and practice, but my muscles are way too sore. Just hit 30
It actually comes from a very popular book called http://www.amazon.com/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0316017922 Many studies have shown that to master a skill it takes 10,000 hours of practice. From a musician to an athlete.
in midst of work family and life, im lucky if i can afford 8hrs at the most in a week. Boys enjoy the most out of futbolwile you can
yes. the idea is that, if you look at all of the top performers in any activity, you'll find that they have spent a lot of time practicing and perfecting their skills. in other words, natural talent helps, but if you really want to be tops, you have to nurture it. yup. get in your playing time while you can... when job and family start, you'll be lucky to even get 8 hours in. (i get to play maybe one game every two weeks.)
Snolly g, where do you play? Hoping to find some soccer players from US that are staying in Korea at the moment.