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Sean Callahan
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 1:34 pm: |       |
Is a five hour practice better than a 2 and half hour practice? Is a 2 and half hour practice better than a 3 hour practice? I ask these questions because I cannot seem to find data supporting how much practice per day is enough. We have teams practicing from 2 and half to 4 hours. |
Barrett Golyer
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 1:35 pm: | |
Was it Vincent Lombardi who once said, "We're gonna get in two good hours of practice even if it takes us six." I am not sure.
The sport, time of the season, and intensity of practice all need to play vital components in determining how long to run a practice.
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James Farrell
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| | Posted on Thursday, March 11, 2004 - 1:36 pm: | |
Based on my coaching basketball and professional baseball experience. I believe a 2 hour practice time is important for an athlete. If a coach goes over that time period the athlete has a better chance to fatigue physically and mentally, giving them an opportunity to work on their skills the incorrect way. Keeping the practice time to an hour and a half to 2 hours will give the athlete enough time to work hard and keep them fresh for up and coming practices and games
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Jillian Howard (Jillianh)
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Username: Jillianh
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 7:23 pm: | |
I am a College student who has recently finished a motor learning class. We have been studing the most benefical amount of practice. I believe that 2 hours of practice is about the longest amount of practice that should be used. Any longer, might cause the athlete to become fatigued, bored or become tired of playing the sport. |
Jared Long (Jared_long)
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Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:14 am: | |
I have been a High school football coach for a couple of years now, and have found that you shouldn't set limits on your practice time. This should include both min. and max. The players/athletes will let you know one way or the other. However Jillian, if by doing this you will find that your average practice time comes to be approx. 2-3 hours. James has a vaild point as well, but to avoid this a coach could do skill work in the begining of a practice and then conditioning at the end of practice. If you used a skill based conditioning only used those skills that you went over in that practice session, they will be the most solid of the atheletes skills. This will help the athelets in being prepared for the ends of games when they are tired. I had a coach once who said,"If you can only do it when your 100%, then what happens when you are 95%?" |
toriloney
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| | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 10:40 am: | |
I have found that having a practice that meets in the middle is most productive. 2 Hours tends to be too short for my sport (cheerleading) and three can occasionally run too long. I like to reserve 2.5 hours per practice. If I end early, its a present to the team or I just run conditioning a little longer. I also like to have one day per week where we have no practice scheduled. We can always schedule a practice if needed but this free day allows the team members a chance to make doctors appointments instead of during practice. I find that this day I give up practicing returns to me by having my entire team show up to the rest of the week's practices. |
Carrie Casoni
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:05 am: | |
I believe that between two and two and a half hours of practice is an appropriate amount of time. I also think that practice depends on your sport and the age level that you are coaching. If you are coaching in the school setting, you must realize aside from being on your team that athletes are students and have homework to do after practice. I also think that if you are coaching a younger age group, after two hours attention spans and physical energy begin to wain. When this happens, practice is no longer beneficial. |
Erica Mack
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| | Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 4:42 pm: | |
I coached an under eight softball team and I was lucky if I could keep their attention for an hour. It all does depend on the age group. I do not think you should have more than two hours of practice for anyone. When I had soccer pratice for more than 2 hours I was so burned out that the second half of pratice went on forever and I could not perform my my fullest physically and mentally. Then my coach realized this and split the practices up so we would go from 8AM to 10AM than 6PM to 8PM and there was a big difference in performance.. I really do not think it is good to exceed practices for any sport any age for 2 hours or more at a time. |
Kelly wolfe
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| | Posted on Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 1:00 pm: | |
If you are working with an older age group, then I feel having a 2 or 2 1/2 hour practice is essential. Anything over that amount of time is a waste. The athletes muscles will be tired and they will begin to make mental and physical mistakes. Also, because they are tired, their fundamentals will decrease and cause bad muscle memory. It also depends on how the athletes are performing on that day. If they begin the practice sloppy and unfocused, they most likely wont be any more focused after two hours of practice. So, if they start off having a bad practice, its probably best to just cancel the practice because it could cause more harm then good if you continue the practice. |
Paul Schwab (Pss5733)
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Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 8:04 pm: | |
The amount of time you should practice has a lot of factors around it. It depends on the sport, the age level, the skill level, the time in the season, or the intensity of the workout for that day. I run track and field and my event is the decathlon so having to work on 10 events throughout a week forces my coach to sometimes go longer than two hours but on days when we have a hard running work out we may cut down so we can focus on getting as much out of the work out as we can. Now if you take a team sport such as basketball or soccer 2 hours may sometimes feel like nothing because all the different drills you have to perform. It seems though 2 to 2 and half hours a day is a good number for athletes because anything more could burnout athletes. Yet again you have to take all the factors into consideration when developing your practices. |
harriet haleaka huntley (Harriethuntley)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 10:53 am: | |
I know that a practice should only run 2-2.5 hrs. |
Jamie King (Jking)
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Post Number: 5
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 4:55 pm: | |
As an athlete and coach I can tell you my personal ideas on practice time. As an athlete growing up from 5 yrs. old till I was 7 we only practiced an hour and a half. This kept out attention and our coaches taught us very specific things. From about 7 on till I was 17 I only practiced for 2 hours in every sport I played, that includes volleyball, tennis, softball and basketball. This amount of time allowed for more detailed and specific drills along with small games depending on the sport. At 17 I played softball for a travel team and I had 4 hour practices. I feel personally that 4 hours is way to long. I recall getting tired and bored, and I continued my softball into college playing for Slippery Rock University which is a Division 2 school which shows you that I do enjoy the sport. As a softball coach I practice my kids 2 hours now at the ages of 9-12. Last year I coached the same ages in a different town and only went an hour and a half. I believe it depends on the sport, the players ages and also ability level. |
Jaime-Lyn Lemoncelli (Jll0450)
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Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Monday, April 03, 2006 - 8:30 pm: | |
I think the time of practice is based on the intensity. In high school, I was a runner on the track team. We were allowed to stay as long/leave as early as we wanted to. Days when I did vigorous training I found myself only staying 1 - 1 1/2 hours, and on lighter days I stayed around 2-3 hours. It all depends on the athlete and how they perform. |
casey meyer (Casey)
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| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 10:07 am: | |
I have practiced for 45 minutes to 5 hours. I would say that it would all depend on the amount that is accomplished and the intensity that you want the practice to be at. If you are able to get everything done in 1 hour and make sure that it is going smooth then why practice longer and risk injury, but if it takes the entire day to get is correct then take the day. |
