Sentences with phrase «hours each day practicing»

Unfortunately, I have to spend around 7 hours a day practicing, and have little time to work on my piano or audio software skills.

Not exact matches

For example, violinists destined to become professional soloists practiced an average of 3.5 hours per day, typically in three separate sessions of 60 - 90 minutes each.

I want to test Daniel Coyle's premise that if you practice a skill (really practice, not just put in the time) for an hour every day for a year or two, you won't get ten or twenty times better — you'll get immeasurably better.

«I start each day with an hour of meditation, this is a daily practice I have kept for several years now.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Battery life is rated at 16 hours of continuous use, and in practice I found that it lasted throughout the day.

You'd think the need for so much practice would run counter to the idea that four hours of intellectual work a day maxes out our brains.

He had long been practicing intermittent fasting, limiting his caloric intake to certain hours of the day, and avoiding sugar and carbs.

Day trading sector ETFs doesn't require homework or research outside of market hours (once you know and have practiced the strategy), because which sector ETF you will trade is determined each morning just after the open.

And through these simple practices I am learning no matter what happens in the coming days, weeks and months — worrying about it will not add a single hour to my life.

While full - time church musicians find their hours consumed by paper work and phony administrative duties (not the legitimate ones), part - timers have a more difficult time finding practice time because they usually also hold full - time jobs and are tired at the end of the day.

Practiced consistently and with integrity, the master role of prophetic guide gives a chance to assert control over the crazy quilt of incessant demands placed on the pastoral leader in a typical twelve - to thirteen - hour day.

As Aurobindo became more active in the Indian independence movement, he also had been practicing pranayama (breath control) for up to six hours a day, three hours each morning and evening, but aside from some psychophysical phenomena such as luminous patterns and figures and a great outpouring of poetry, he had no other results (OH 78f.).

The monks spend about six hours a day in services — common practice in Orthodox monasteries — and sometimes longer, as during an all - night vigil.

Elite - level synchronized swimmers typically practice eight hours per day, six days per week.

Santa Clara Aquamaids practice at least 3 hours per day, 6 days per week at the Warburton Pool in Santa Clara and Gunderson Pool in San Jose.

I hope everyone who catches a ball invests in a jugs machine and spends 3 - 4 hours a day all summer practicing.

It may be, as Don Neer predicts, that some day a brawny key - punch operator who has practiced long hours in a corporate - owned kayak on a corporate - built lake may go out and beat a Russian for old Amalgamated Sponge.

«I used to practice every day, all day, eight, 10 hours at a stretch,» he says.

«You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way.

A lot of the gamers drafted play anywhere from 8 - 12 hours a day, practicing plays, strategies and just getting better.

Santa Clara Aquamaids practice at least 3 hours per day, 6 days per week at the Walburton Pool in Santa Clara and Gunderson Pool in San Jose.

She works out daily, taking advantage of an early end to her school day to run hills and do other cardio work before hitting balls into a net for an hour before returning to the school for practice.

He works out on the track every morning, doing a 440, an 880 and a two - mile in half an hour, and three days a week concludes the practice session with a three - mile run.

He regrets none of his monotonous days — school, weight room, practice, recruit calls, game film, more reps at 24 - Hour Fitness and training with personal quarterback coach Matt House.

It was early March, the last dogged stretch of the regular season, and there was practice in a few hours and another event the next day in downtown Boston.

Jon recently started teaching me to play guitar and I am totally taking my former music teacher advice that practicing 10 minutes a day is better than an hour once a week.

Kids pressured to do so take AP courses that require studying four to six hours a night after a full day of school and often hours of athletic practice.

A lot of attachment parenting practices are right for us and our family, but I know I will never be the one who, for example, will be babywearing for an hour or two every day.

You will be allowing them to practice social skills, and even better, reduce the amount of time they spend watching TV, considering that most children nowadays spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen; TV, video games, computer.

The student starts the day at 6:15 a.m.; takes classes such as AP calculus, honors Spanish, biology and art history from 7:50 a.m. to 3 p.m. (breaking for a student council meeting at lunch); heads to a service club meeting after school; and then goes to a two - hour swim practice before heading home at 6:45 p.m. for a shower, dinner and three to four hours of homework.

My husband works long hours just about every day, so in order to keep my sanity I've created my own relaxing rituals that I practice throughout the day.

Children missed their lines, they missed their marks, the singing was mostly off - key, and they had practiced this play for two hours a day for weeks.

Chandler «s infant massage course (five 1 1/2 hours sessions, day or evening) costs $ 45 and includes Schneider «s book, oils, instruction in the theory and practice of infant massage and how to vary it as the child grows, and individualized help with special problems.

Experiences with breastfeeding in the first hours and days of life significantly impact an infant's later feeding practices.

The «One Day» is actually what they call the «Big Day» where you spend a few hours practicing proper potty training behavior.

He likely isn't at practice every single day, and even an hour - long practice doesn't usually mean 60 full minutes of physical play.

Gregory attributed the knee surgeries to a «combination of growing really fast and overuse,» admitting that she practiced upwards of six hours a day, 365 days a year.

After all, if our kids were average, we wouldn't put them on year - round travel teams, force them to practice the cello for three hours a day or sign them up for every honors class short of AP taxidermy (and we'd put them in that, too, if we heard that the admissions director at Princeton had a weakness for stuffed opossums).

For a young child, practicing the scales for a half an hour a day might be enough.

You can also practice twice a day for 30 minutes, if blocking off a whole hour won't work.

Elvimama worked hard every day to feed her five children Elftritious foods, teach them their Elfessons, make sure they practiced on their Elviolins, take them to their Elfootball and Elfallet practices while she grabbed an hour at Elfercize (wearing Baby Elvie, of course!)

Even if you are a busy mom, the workouts in this program just take up from you over 1 hour each day to practice and master.

Recently I have made a more specific effort to understand fully the concepts and practices behind AP and have realized how important it is for babies and children to feel protected and cared for at all hours of the day and often continued cosleeping is part of this.

Offering parents support and advice - in lectures, in books, on television and in his highly sought - after one - man pediatric practice - is what Brazelton, father and grandfather, does five days a week, 10 hours a day.

Step 7 - Practice rooming - in - allow mothers and infants to remain together - 24 hours a day.

Chua's book was a somewhat tongue - in - cheek memoir of her experiences raising her two daughters with her (non-Asian) husband, which involved hours of forced music practice every day, severe restrictions on extracurriculars, outright bans on social activities like sleepovers, and punishment and shaming on the rare occasions her children failed to attain their mother's high expectations.

The course consists of six full days of instruction and 54 hours of independent - study clinical exercises conclude with a practice exam to identify strengths and gaps in skill and knowledge.

This self - paced six part video series includes 8.5 hours of practical and inspiring tools and tips you'll start practicing day one.

Whether a woman chooses to start breastfeeding and how long she continues is closely tied to the patient care practices she and her infant experience during her newborn's first minutes, hours, and days.