It is an unreasonable myth that training is equal to practice because the fact is that, training is equal to learning. Gaining knowledge about any sports is the training that the coach choses to impart to his students and practice refers to performing that training on regular basis. We will try to figure out the difference between these two terms of training and practice by knowing them individually which will make you differentiate between them the next time you get confused between training and practice.

Training:

Have you seen a potter while shaping the pots, how finely he finishes every corner of the pot, well that is what training means. Shaping a student to the finest possible outcome is the purpose of the training that any coach gives, which includes cutting of mistakes, grooming of actions and also inclusion of motivation for the best results. To relate it with your sports the trainer trains you for the best moves from the postures to the actions everything is supposed to be well evaluated in front of the students. If learning a particular skill involves a certain technique, training is learning that technique. It’s focusing on how to do something properly and making sure you are able to do it the correct way.

Practice:

If training means shaping the pots then practice is making them regularly to nurture the art of pottery, or to grab the fastest pace in making the pot. Similarly when a trainer grooms you for any particular sport, practicing it regularly will make the training as well as your game complete. Knowing and performing varies with the word practice in between it and hence regular and timely practice of any sport or exercise be it the table tennis or the regular exercises to do at home, practice is the only way to make the moves perfect. You learn the technique while training and you become perfect at it by practice.

Since now we individually know the terms now let us come to difference between them.

⇾Training and practice widely differs in techniques, while training teaches you the technique, practice makes you perfect with the same technique. Training makes you focus on the technique and practice garnishes the same. Just training or the practice will not make any sports perfect, players need to balance both of these equally.

⇾The second difference in training and practice is the time. Learning how to do something typically takes less time than improving at something. For example, you may spend an hour with a trainer or in a class learning a particular skill, and, within that hour, you learn how to do it. Getting good at it may require a few hours or doing it every day. Another example of training would be taking a one hour piano lesson a week. Practice, on the other hand, could be done for an hour every day.

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Bhushan Thakur

Sports Educationist & International Table Tennis Player