STOP MEASURING YOUR PRACTICE IN HOURS!

welcome back work harder Wednesday you know what that means roll that beautiful intro [Music] [Music] the last two weeks I've talked about specific tools aids whatever you can use well today I want to talk about something that doesn't cost you any money the basically only cost you time how are you managing your practice I want to talk about the importance of quality practice over quantity of practice I grew up golfing I grew up practicing and training and always thinking about the hours you put it got to go to a golf course for X amount of hours fill in that point whatever amount of hours you need to spend at the course get that done you hear PGA Tour players spend six seven eight hours a day training so as a junior golfer what did that look like for me I had to cross off the hours then you throw in the principle of 10,000 hours to be an expert in something so it was always about knocking off the hours but one thing that I found really changed my practice was a couple of years ago one of my very good friends was actually a strength and conditioning coach in the MLS gave me a new way to look at my practice a new way to look at my training and it was more about the quality or the amount of golf balls versus just a straight-up time it's comparable to when you go to the gym you're gonna go through 12 reps three sets whatever something like that you just don't go I'm gonna go do bench presses for 20 minutes so when I practice I practice in chunks of golf balls I hit so I'll warm up with 20 golf balls then I'll transition into 30 balls of say technical work then I'll go hit 100 pots then maybe I'll transition over to hitting 20 bunker shots and I'll do this throughout the day how I found this helped me so so much was I got rid of the watch stopped paying attention to the time and I started paying attention to the focus the quality and the intention and sometimes twenty golf balls took 20 minutes sometimes it took ten minutes sometimes it could take thirty minutes because from any given swing you may rehearse a little bit more you may slow it down a little bit more you may just be grooving and I lost track of time and paid attention more to the ball count low in the whole of my days still took the hours that it would take to be a professional golfer but I think it's something that's really really beneficial especially if you're short on time you want to go hit 30 golf balls you're gonna go there with a goal and it's hitting 30 golf balls with focus with intention with purpose and it also has helped me because it's given me a quantifiable warm-up routine before every round I know I'm gonna warm up with 10 pitching lunges 30 chips 12 putts so I know before every round of golf I have basically a checklist in my head of the balls I'm going to hit consistency I'm gonna say this every week consistency is so key when it comes to golf so that's basically the thing I found and that's what I want to encourage you guys to try your next practice session throw a watch away who cares about the time pay attention to the quality of the amount of golf balls you hit give yourself a number of golf balls to hit for any given club that's just a little bit past a comfortable amount very easy to go hit 15 sand wedges but 20 could be a little bit harder could push you just a little bit further hitting 37 irons working on your technique it's just a little bit outside of what is easy hitting 40 shots throughout the golf bag of variable practice it's very very good for the mind good for the focus and it's just a little bit outside what is easy hitting a hundred putts is a little bit outside of the 6070 mark which is pretty easy to do so challenge yourself give yourself a count of balls in any given Club be it wedges be it the woods see how that goes let me know in the comments below see if this focus this way to look at your practice helps I hope it does because it's helped me very very much it's given me a way to basically check off my work at the end of the day and I'm gonna show you in a upcoming video the statistics that I keep and how I keep track of all these chunks of practice that I do and the amount of time that it ends up taking so guys give this video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't so you can see me next Wednesday for another installment of work harder Wednesday and the upcoming season two of the vlog thank you guys very much see you on the Internet [Music] [Applause]