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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

At my gym the level 1 gymnast probably practice 2 hours a week, level 2 gymnast 3 hours a week, level 3 gymnast 5 hours a week, level 4 gymnast goes 8 hours a week, level 5 and 6 gymnasts go 12 hours a week.
 
My youngest dd has just moved up from rec and goes once a week for 2.5 hours at the moment.
My oldest dd is in a disability development group and goes twice a week for 1.5 hours each time.
 
I think DD started out old L4 at about 9 hours. She went over 20 during the summer and is back to 12.5 now at new L4. Looking at the winter/spring schedule, they're allowing the exact same # of hours for new L5. Optionals are in the neighborhood of 16 or so.
 
Back when I was in compulsories the level 4s and 5s trained 12hrs a week and level 6s trained 16hrs a week.
 
One thing I've learned from CB is gyms vary quite a bit with hours trained.
One thing I've learned from personal observation is less hours, utilized wisely and well, can still turn out well-trained gymnasts. I appreciate our gym doesn't want to burn kids out, but kids with talent and desire still do very well in meets as our gym's system works.

Our L3s and L4s train separately, but each 7.5 hours/week plus an hour of dance.

L5s add one additional 2.5 hr practice on top of that.

Optionals start at 15 hrs a week plus dance and go up to right around 20-22 hrs per week.
 

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