Got that, right now for some background information first on this blog post.
I watched the rolled up episode with Marcelo Garcia and he stated that if you do something you should do it 100% and not 80%. The question was leading towards life balance and that if your goal is competition, then you need to commit 100%. Marcelo was saying that he hates seeing people commit 80% because they are wasting time. Marcelo has also made a ton of sacrifices to commit to 100%!
5:30 in Marcello talks about giving 100%. Are you wasting time?
Let me tell you about a a Robert Drysdale seminar I went to a few years back. Someone asked the question how often they should train jiu jitsu. Drysdale replied dead serious “No more than twice a day”, as if twice a day was completely normal for everyone. In Robert’s mind twice a day is completely reasonable, and he has tried more than twice a day and for himself he didn’t really see any extra benefit in training more. Now that shows 100% commitment.
So back to your goals and the time you have spent training the last 6 months. In my opinion if your goal is to compete then 5-7 sessions a week is not going to cut it.
Do you think t you will win you a World Championship at any belt level if you are training at that level? How are you going to compete against the like of Lloyd Irvin’s “Medal Chasers” who even as Blue belts are doing more sessions than that everyday. These guys are 100% committed because they just train, eat and sleep Jiu-Jitsu. Lloyd Irvin is giving those guys a way of life which I think is awesome if you want that.
Do you want to compete against that? Is Jiu-Jitsu a hobby or a way of life for you? I have seen a lot of talk recently about “Statistics” in competition, yet out of those statistics what it doesn’t tell you is effort. I’d like a statistic on Effective Training Time.
Let’s do the Math and have an example of what Effective Training Time (ETT) is all about. At it’s core it’s really about the total time you spend doing “useful” training. Not sitting on the side recovering, or waiting in line for you next go.
Effective Training Time (ETT in hours) = Weeks * SessionsPerWeek * EffectiveMinutesPerSession / MinutesPerHour
Person A losses to Person B in a competition and both have trained extensively for 6 months leading up to the comp.
Person A has trained 6 times a week with 1hr sessions. Each sessions thought only has an effective training time of 30 minutes because of warm up, cool downs, breaks, drinks, line ups for rolls and delays when teaching.
= 26 * 6 * 30 / 60
Person A ETT = 78 Hours (80% committed)
Person B trains 6 times a week, does 2 sessions per day, each session is 1.5 hours long and has 30 minutes downtime.
ETT = 26 * 12 * 60 / 60
Person B ETT = 312 Hours (100% committed)
So Person B actually has 4 times as much effective training time as person A! He still has the same delays in class but has a slightly longer class and he has an extra lesson a day which adds up to a 4 fold increase in the Effective Training Time.
To me it’s clear that Person B is committed and training hard while Person A is kind of wasting his time and going through the motions 6 times a week! 78 Effective hours over a 6 months isn’t a lot. I wish I could have a job were I’d only need to commit to 78 hours every 6 months.
So work this out for yourself. What’s your ETT for the last month and does your ETT match your goal? How are you going to correct the imbalance?
My next blog entry will be for the hobbyist and committed BJJ practitioner alike. I’ll be breaking an awesome concept that I’ve recently learnt that will help you achieve your goals in BJJ and fix those imbalances. This awesome scientific concept can be applied to other areas of your life as well.
Dan
tl;dr; Don’t give 80% to something, give 100% or less than 25%.
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