What is the difference between practice and training

I need to practice more. I want to lose weight, so I have to exercise more. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.

Email required Address never made public. Name required. Tiffany Nguyen. Knowledge is critical, especially in the self-defense world. This is what makes training invaluable, even if it tells you what not to do. If you only fight in a dojo or square range you are good, otherwise you just may be screwed.

Practice is essential, but you must train to determine what best to practice. That will change depending on your purpose, and the only way you know is to seek out training. And NO the Internet is not training, knowledge yes, but not training. Experience comes two ways, trial and error on your part, or passed on from the experienced. Both are necessary, but learning from others saves all kinds of pain and may just save your life. It can also insure you win the next match or make that clean and humane shot on your next hunt.

Every instructor with even moderate experience has seen the person return to the next class having forgotten everything learned in the previous one. I stress this because in many cases people are there for other reasons. If you spend the first three days of a week-long training remembering what you forgot from the last one you are really there for a two day class If that. If you intend to progress, or implement what you learned in real life you MUST practice.

Practice consists mostly of repetitive implementation of the basic skills learned in training, most of which can be practiced at home, safely, with no need for any special facility. Speak to anyone who excels at a martial skill and they will tell you most of their practice is not at the training hall. For pistols, drawing from the holster, stance, grip, trigger manipulation, loads, reloads, even holstering can all be done dry, at home.

Most every aspect of weapons manipulation can be accomplished without live ammunition. Sort out clothing and other equipment issues. Set up obstacles and barricades for rifle placement. Practice movement if there is room.

It can all be done with dummy ammunition when needed, or a blue gun when not. There are even ways to practice scope use at short range that simulates longer range shooting.

Short of recoil control and trigger manipulation under fire most all the basics can be practiced without the need for a range or even live ammunition meaning there is simply no excuse not to practice. Training involves taking classes to learn how to use these programs, and, although you might get the opportunity to practice what you've learned in class, the goal of a class is to train someone on how to use it.

Practice is most likely done outside of class on your own time to apply what you learned. When it comes to fitness, people sometimes hire a personal trainer to learn how to exercise properly and gain the maximum benefit of each exercise.

A trainer will show you how to execute the actions and guide you when you do it yourself. Practice is doing the exercises on your own once you know how to do them right. Practice is also typically repeating an action with the goal of getting better at something.

When we begin to understand this concept and shift away from a practice mentality, we not only see better results, but we appreciate our time in the ring even more.

Every rep, every drill, and every exercise is working towards the common goal of improving our throws. Real growth and development is found through change and adaptation.

Do not get stuck in the same routines and expect to see improvements.