https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/training-volume-and-level Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/training-volume-and-levelEvery time a study has compared archers of different levels, the stronger ones trained more, and between levels far apart the gap is wide. Ten British national team archers of Olympic level report 34.5 hours a week against 4.4 for ten archers at a university club, about eight times as much; among 62 high-level recurve archers, those at the European championships shoot about 700 arrows a week against 274 for those at the German indoor championships, two and a half times as many; eight French archers in the national top twenty train about 21 hours a week against 6 for seven archers on the regional circuit. Descriptions of other samples fall in the same order: 20 to 30 hours a week in elite groups in France, Israel and Turkey, two or three sessions a week in club youngsters. The gap narrows, though, when the levels are close: between higher- and lower-level juniors the reported hours are 16.2 against 13.6, with no test. All of these comparisons are between different groups measured once, with hours reported rather than recorded, and none follows the same archers over time: nobody knows whether volume makes the level or the level makes the volume possible.claim:volume-allenamento-livello:revision:2026-02-05:3Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/physical-training/training-volume-and-levelclaim:volume-allenamento-livello:new_claim:2026-01-07:riportatoWed, 07 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT