25 Minutes or 20 Sessions

[StevenXL]

Is there an agreement on how much to train daily - 25 minutes a day or
20 sessions.

The original article that got me interested in n-back training said
20-25 minutes a day, so that's what I'm doing. This comes out to
roughly 15 sessions. But I take 10 second breaks in between each
session. (Should I not do the breaks?) People seem to reference 20
sessions per day, not a time limit for training.

Thanks, just trying to get this right.

[jack nguyen]

Bleh. I cant seem to do it for more than 20 minutes without going bonkers. Besides, the better you get the longer it takes to do 20 sessions.

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[SwankBank]

I agree, I'm pretty good now, doing Tri-4-back and I do 4 minute
sessions at 2.70 speed, until i get 24 minutes of N-backing. I break
for like 2 minutes in between but sometimes longer because this stuff
ain't fun haha. But i think you need to do longer sessions, cause its
harder your brain is under "tension" longer per set which IMO results
in quicker, better, solid increases in WM.

On May 25, 10:50 am, jack nguyen <very...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bleh. I cant seem to do it for more than 20 minutes without going bonkers.
> Besides, the better you get the longer it takes to do 20 sessions.
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> On Friday, May 25, 2012, StevenXL wrote:
> > Is there an agreement on how much to train daily - 25 minutes a day or
> > 20 sessions.
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> > The original article that got me interested in n-back training said
> > 20-25 minutes a day, so that's what I'm doing. This comes out to
> > roughly 15 sessions. But I take 10 second breaks in between each
> > session. (Should I not do the breaks?) People seem to reference 20
> > sessions per day, not a time limit for training.
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> > Thanks, just trying to get this right.
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[StevenXL]

SwankBank, when you say "you" need to do longer sessions, do you mean
me specifically or in general?

[SwankBank]

In general its better to do longer sessions atleast for longer than 2
minutes IMO, but I was talking to you StevenXL, I think you are taking
it too easy on yourself with
breaking up 25 minutes into 15 sessions so your doing sets of 100
seconds, IMO thats too easy, ya gotta feel your brain start to hurt a
little which in my experience only happens when you really
concentrate
on the game and do sessions longer then or equal to 3 minutes, so I
do
sessions that last 4 minutes and then ratchet it down to 3 minutes
when I can't concentrate on them game as well, cause your mind starts
to just wonder after 3 minutes passed about 18 minutes of DNB in my
experience and when that happens its just a waist of time if your not
fully concentrating on the game. But I kinda just saw that you take
only 10 second breaks! Wow so I don't know maybe thats ok then
because
your going right back at it...but anyway try it for 3 minute
sessions,
I think you'll feel the brain strain and I think that equals pushing
your brain pass or too its limits and will result in faster better
gains in WM.