{"id":57,"date":"2013-09-02T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profootballtraining.com.au\/TEST\/2016\/2013\/09\/02\/10-000-hours-myth\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T03:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T03:10:07","slug":"10-000-hours-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profootballtraining.com.au\/TEST\/10-000-hours-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Hours &#8211; Myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">We certainly agree with Wayne and we believe &#8211; <strong>Be The Best&nbsp;You Can Be<\/strong> at Pro Football Training, School, Club and all other sessions\/games. If it takes 10,000 hours, great, someone may sell a few more books. Chances are, that if you <strong>prepare consistently to your full potential <\/strong>it will take a whole lot less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>10000 hours to make a champion??? What rubbish!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">This<em><em> \u201c10000 hours to build a champion footballer\u201d<\/em><\/em> stuff seems to have popped up in a lot of places recently. Just goes to show how many people in the world can write stuff about sport without knowing anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">The Golden Rule\u2026.there isn\u2019t one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">The Golden rule about producing champions is that there are <strong><strong>no golden rules.<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">There are no \u201c<strong>always<\/strong>\u201d have to\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">There are no \u201c<strong>must<\/strong>\u201d do this\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">There are no \u201c<strong>can<\/strong> <strong>never<\/strong>\u201d do that\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">And there are&nbsp;no magical, miraculous numbers of hours required&nbsp;to produce greatness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>The Search for \u201cThe Formula\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Everyone in football is searching for \u201cthe Formula\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;a set&nbsp;of training routines, skills, drills, supplements, equipment and systems which will guarantee success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Just look at the recent \u201cpower-band\u201d debacle! People wanted something which would guarantee performance enhancement for everyone who&nbsp;purchased one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">The search for a 100% guaranteed, never fail, always successful system which will produce winning&nbsp;footballers and teams is like the \u201cdiet\u201d industry: everyone is looking for an easy solution which is guaranteed to work every time for every body but ultimately it takes a lot of hard work and even then<em><strong><em> nothing<\/em><\/strong><\/em> is certain.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>Ten Reasons Why The Ten Thousand Hours is Rubbish.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Not all&nbsp;footballers learn, grow, adapt and improve at the same rate;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Not all footballers learn, grow, adapt and improve the same way;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Each&nbsp;footballer has a different capacity to recover;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">The <strong>level of engagement <\/strong>determines the effectiveness of the training activity;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Why 10000? Why not 11000? Why not 8000? Why not 83456.72 hours?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>Training environments <\/strong>are incredibly different;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>The Quality of coaching <\/strong>is incredibly variable;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>Potential to perform; <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong>Passion to prepare, drive, enthusiasm<\/strong>\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">Being <strong>unique<\/strong>, being <strong>different<\/strong>, being <strong>individual<\/strong>\u2026\u2026\u2026.that\u2019s what makes champions champions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\"><strong title=\"http:\/\/www.sportscoachingbrain.com\/the-secret-to-success-in-sport-is\/\"><strong title=\"http:\/\/www.sportscoachingbrain.com\/the-secret-to-success-in-sport-is\/\">There is a secret to success<\/strong><\/strong> &#8211; but it isn\u2019t a piece of equipment, a special diet, a gym membership or a mythical number of hours of preparation. The secret to success is \u2013 as it always has been- is&nbsp;to make the most of every opportunity (i.e. every training session, every recovery session, every competition) and <strong>prepare to the full extent of your potential <\/strong>every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">&nbsp; <span class=\"article_separator\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; color: #000000;\">For those of you that attended our PFT launch night in 2009, we spoke about the study regarding players striving to get 10,000 hours of practice to reach their potential. 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