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Hi! This is my first post and I'm sure it's a question that's been asked and answered many times but the search function doesn't seem to work very well. I'm trying to get a sense for what is a reasonable expectation of hours in the gym/week/level. My daughter is level 4 and trains 9.5 hours/week.

Hi, I'm new...to the forum and with a 6.5 yr old DD who is new to gymnastics. She started a rec class earlier this year and we quickly added a second class each week because she LOVES it. So now she goes twice a week and is happy. She recently asked me about the team, (after seeing one of the...

My youngest dd is 7. Her gym has had her on elite track since she was put in pre team last year. ( I guess you can say she has natural talent) she just finished competing level 3 for experience and her coach is planning on scoring her out of 4 and 5 and compete optional next winter ( not sure...

Reading many posts on here about the amount of hours 4-7 year olds are doing has shicked me a little and has made me question my dd(7) hours. My dd currently only trains once a week for 2 1/2 hours , while I am not too happy with that I have realised that I wouldn't be happy with dd training...

My DD is platinum excel in AAU. next year she will be doing USAG. She will have to test out of levels 3 &4 and then skip level 5 and do level 6. Right now she practices mon, tues, thurs, and fri 4:30-7:30. I was interested in if the coach she increase their practice hours now rather than waiting...

My DD is on the xcel bronze team at her gym. She started doing gymnastics at the end of last year and really has fallen in love. She does 7.25 hours total a week, and that the max that a xcel bronze may train at her gym (6 hr team practice and the optional 1.25 conditioning class)...

We are having a local USAG sanctioned meet, want to get as many girls to compete as possible. But, because of our gym circumstances, we only have 4 hours to do it. All are level 4s.

We've had meets that start at 5 p.m. but never 6:30 p.m. It will just be me and my daughter and we are driving up the day before and plan on driving back right after the meet. I would have considered staying another night if we could watch some of her teammates who may be competing the next...

Anyone here training for club grades (14-9) or know of them? One of the clubs I coach for is looking into entering girls into the club grade competitions (currently they only do rec comps) so I was wondering what the average weekly hours of training was for each level?

Hi. My first ever post. DD is 7 and doing level 5 this year. Coaches have asked us if we would be willing next year for Level 4 to train during school hours one morning or afternoon a week in addition to the 5 other sessions she's does during the week. I'm quite reluctant but I was wondering if...

We have our next meet starting in 7 1/2 hours for younger gymmie and 14 1/2 hours for older gymmie. They had a week off for Thanksgiving, so there were only 3 days of practice since the last meet. OG had a church thing on Monday, so she only had 2 days of practice... and we had to leave before...

My dd and I are new to the world of pre team / development classes and dd goes once a week for 2 1/2 hours, her session involves conditioning at the beginning and end of session and learning skills etc. Dd tried her best at what was asked of her and kept up with the other girls. My dd has just...

I go to a county club in Victoria we are the only club even close to me but we only ofer 9 hours a week. I am going into level 9 and the max hours for then is 12. Any ideas??

Can anyone tell me roughly how many hours per week a gymnast should train? Levels 1 through to 6. My daughters gym doesn't seem to do many hours so was wondering what other gyms do. Thanks

I'm curious to know how other gym parents handle crazy gym hours and dinner. DD is currently a L4 going 11 hrs a week, which I know is pretty minimal compared to what a lot of you are doing. Two of the nights she's home by 7 so we are all able to eat together, but the other two nights, her hours...

Sorry to beat the dead horse (this probably has been posted before), but I need some viewpoints to make my decision. So ‘tis the time to look at the day camp flex account and make plans for next summer already. Our gym requires (but doesnt really enforce)girls to put in 3 to 4 weeks of full days...

Our gym competes level 1. The girls go two days a week for 3 hour practices. The gym is now wanting to add a third day of practice (2 hrs) for the girls before the first meet. I think the rationale is that this is a young team (6 yr olds) who have never competed before. Do other level 1's...

Ok. I've been picking up on a few threads recently about advantages and disadvantages of long hours at a young age, not the least I Wanna Coach's comments about it being possible to make it to elite and national team in the states whilst still training compulsories at 12. My other half and I...

I know there have been multiple threads previously about how many hours are too many for young gymnasts. I am not interested in re-hashing that debate, but I am interested in hearing from high school and college age gymnasts (and parents of those gymnasts) regarding your experience. I am...

My daughter will be 11 in September and will be competing level 9 this season . I just found out she's suppose to train 4hours x4 days a week and 5 hours on Saturday totaling 20 hours a week. She has been doing that over the summer but she will be starting a new middle school in the fall . How...