Repetition to habit

[Muzza_77 0]

How many times do you have to perform an action before it becomes a habit?

I think that is like 300 or something. Can someone please tell me?

thanks

muzza

[Viking#9 0]

When I was doing my ski instructor course, we were taught that it took 10,000 times for it to become a habit

[Muzza_77 0]

10,000 owell I guess that means more training :P

[Guest OSTOR]

Your both wrong its 27 times

[Adam91 0]

I thought that in the past I've heard it takes 30,000 hours to completly master a skill

[All Torhs Team 0]

This is dumb. We are not going to find a real answer.

I've heard it takes 21 days. Everybody has heard something different.

[Project824 0]

Hockey Canada actually did a study a few years back estimating that it takes 30,000 CORRECT repetitions to build muscle memory. Notice it is muscle memory, as in an action. So you would need to correctly execute a skating stride 30,000 times to make it second nature. 30,000 snap shots. 30,000 toe drags. It's similar to a golf swing, or shooting a basketball. Correct repetitions is the important thing.

[asdfa 0]

my wrestling coach said it takes around 21 repetitions to build a fundamental understanding of any skill, so that is the bare minimum

[RadioGaGa 162]

30,000 toe drags.

Woo Hoo!!!! 29,891 more and I've got it down!!!!!

[LkptTiger 1]

Correct repetitions is the important thing.

My baseball coach always said "Practice doesn't make perfect: PERFECT practice makes perfect."

[speedcraft 0]

This is probably more info than you wanted (14 pages worth :o ), but this link provides an interesting read about “Learning Sports Skills and Motor Developmentâ€

Finally, it’s important to distinguish between making a new skill a habit and making corrections to an erroneously performed skill habitual. That is, removing bad habits from a skill you already know (even if you perform the majority of the skill correctly) can be more difficult than learning a new skill. However, on page 9 of the article there is a description of a very interesting method for “reprogramming†erroneous skills that is called the Old Way / New Way Method.

[biff44 0]

Ido not know what the science says, but my kid did a week with Smushkin once, which was around 3 hours a day by 5 days, and he your could see a pretty good muscle memory many months later from that ammount of repetition.

[KYHockey3 0]

honestly, i think it depends on the person. some people catch on to things easily and can contantly do them correctly and without a thought. others take longer.

its hard to say a specific numer of hours or times because each person is different and some people get habits easily.