WAG How many hours should xcel bronze-silver gymnasts train?

[ISSA_GYMNAST_2023]

I started gymnastics in October 2023 and now according to watching some routines and getting some advice from people I am close to xcel silver and could compete bronze. Btw I did start gymnastics late when I was 10, I have a busy schedule (monday-thursday has after school stuff but after 2024-2025 school year ends it will probably only be monday-wednesday) My gym does xcel tryouts in May and I wanna know about how many days and hours should xcel bronze and silver gymnasts train.

 

[gymperson]

My daughter is in Bronze and she trains 6 hrs/week. She does 2 hour practices, three times per week.

 

[Coach Kate]

I was part of a low hours program and that level did 2.5 hours twice a week so 5 total. Depending on coaching availability, there might be an option of an extra day.

 

[JBS]

Our Bronze team trains 5 hours per week.

 

[Mthegymqueen]

My old gym were I did bronze and silver, and my current gym where I did another year of silver both practiced 3 hours a week (2, 90 minute practices).

 

[raenndrops]

As you can see by the responses, this answer varies depending on the gym.
You should probably ask your gym since that is the one that matters.

And good luck with tryouts in May!!

 

[NYGymfamily]

We don't do bronze. Our silvers, golds, and platinums do 6 or 9 hrs

 

[ISSA_GYMNAST_2023]

As you can see by the responses, this answer varies depending on the gym.
You should probably ask your gym since that is the one that matters.

And good luck with tryouts in May!!

ty

 

[grannyflips90]

Our gym does 3 days a week for all levels of xcel, bronze is 2 hours 15 minutes per practice (6.75 per week), silver 2 hours 45 minutes per practice (8.25 per week), gold plus is 3 hours per practice (9 hours per week). Sometimes before meets they have an additional practice day but that one is only an hour and a half. I feel like our gym has bronzes that are pretty overqualified since we offer 3 levels of rec most kids ideally complete first and no DP team, but our gym is also pretty small and a lot of overlapping classes so I understand why the bronzes come 3 times a week given that.

In general I would say most excel teams practice 2-4 times a week and between 5 and 15 total hours a week. More than that many days and hours you are basically doing DP training hours. For bronze or silver you can probably find a gym that only has practice twice a week but for gold plus I would plan on 3 times a week for 2-3 hours a practice

 

[Daisydog108]

I started gymnastics in October 2023 and now according to watching some routines and getting some advice from people I am close to xcel silver and could compete bronze. Btw I did start gymnastics late when I was 10, I have a busy schedule (monday-thursday has after school stuff but after 2024-2025 school year ends it will probably only be monday-wednesday) My gym does xcel tryouts in May and I wanna know about how many days and hours should xcel bronze and silver gymnasts train.

im in silver/bronze and train 6 hours/3 hours twice a week.

 

[some_gymnast14]

I started gymnastics in October 2023 and now according to watching some routines and getting some advice from people I am close to xcel silver and could compete bronze. Btw I did start gymnastics late when I was 10, I have a busy schedule (monday-thursday has after school stuff but after 2024-2025 school year ends it will probably only be monday-wednesday) My gym does xcel tryouts in May and I wanna know about how many days and hours should xcel bronze and silver gymnasts train.

 

[some_gymnast14]

i never did bronze, but in silver i did 6hrs a week. two 3hr practices a week.

 

[Gymnastics15]

I never did silver, but in silver I trained 9 hours a week, and I now do excel platinum and train 15