How much time does your gymnast spend in the gym?

[Megley]

My Level 5/6 daughter trains 16 hrs per week. Our Level 7s and 8s train 20 hrs and our Level 9s and 10s train 24 hrs a week.

 

[mariposa]

My daughter is a level 4, trains 10 hours a week.

Our L5s train 14 hours, L6s train 16 hours, L7s train 18 hours and L8-10s train 20 hours.

 

[Granny Smith]

Dd is a 2nd yr L8 and she normally goes 20 hrs a week. She's done this for 3 yrs now. Although at this very moment she is hurt, so she is only going about 2.5 - 3 hrs a day for conditioning and bars. Since her injury the HC has upped the hours for L7 and up to 23 hrs a wk, so I am assuming when she comes back from her injury (fingers crossed she gets the ok on the 15th) she will be coming back to 23 hrs a week, which basically is 3 school days she will go 5 hrs (M, T & Th) and the other 2 days she will go 4hrs (F & Sat). Should be interesting, but I'm sure she will adjust just like she always has.

At her gym when you are in the lower levels you start at about 9 hrs a wk (L4) and build from there. I think I remember her jumping from 16hrs to 20 when she went from L6 to L7.

 

[Ohio_Gymnst00]

I am a 15 year old level 8 gymnast. I just started practicing 17 hoursa week, on Jan. 1st.. from then I have improved greatly, before, i only practiced 7 hours a week. I started gymnastics when I was 9, And went into level 5 at the age of 10 . my advice is to go as much as possible, but make sure the gymnast is trying her hardest at each praciced and being pushed hard enough to get where he/she wants to go.

 

[Pickle's Mom]

My 8 yo L4 goes for a total of 9 hours (3x3). L5s go for 12 (3 hours for times a week).

 

[ejgymmom]

My 4 year old will start Level 1 pre-team in April and will go 3 hours a week. I was told they're aiming to have her group compete Level 3 in the fall and that will push her up to 5 hours a week. The gym she goes to only has up to Level 7 at this point (they're just starting to build an optional team) and those girls go 15 hours a week.

 

[starmaker]

My dd is 6 years old (almost 7) is a L4/5 and training for TOPS. She trains 11.5 hrs for L4 and 3.5 hrs a week for TOPS.

Depending on the time of the year hours are subject to change. They have more hours in the summer and holidays.

 

[Jroberson]

Time in the gym

Joscelyn is in gym class about 5 hrs a week, and she is 4 years old. She is at the gym goofing off about 10 more hours a week. She has a lot of fun with her friends and everybody knows Josc at the gym. She thinks the gym is her birth right or something. I can't wait til she can compete, it never crossed my mind that one day I might be cheering for anyone at a gymnasts competition.

 

[Azgymmiemom]

I took the poll based on my dd's hours...
She starts level 4 team monday, just turned 7yrs old, and goes 9 hrs (3x3)a week, plus 1 hr of ballet, and she trains TOPs too, 2 hrs a week...so total of 12 hrs.

Ds, (9yrs)moving to preteam in April will go 6 hrs per week. (and he wishes they had something like TOPs for boys at our gym, which we don't)

Level 5's add another 3 hr day...not sure after that.

Wow, 20hrs a week sounds like an awful lot of time...how do they do homework, or do you basically give up on school and homeschool them if they achieve those levels?
Glad I don't have to think about that for a while...

 

[Aussie_coach]

For our girls we have both a competitive team and a novice team. The competitive team do all the main competitions and this is the main team.
Level 1 - 4 hours
Level 2 - 6 hours
Level 3 - 9 hours
Level 4 - 14 hours
Level 5 - 16 hours
Level 6 - 18 hours
Level 7-10 - 20 hours

This is about average for Australia, some do less, some do more.

Our Novice team do more local type competitions against other gyms who don't do a lot of hours
Level 1 - 2 hours
Level 2 - 4 hours
Level 3 - 6 hours
Level 4 - 9 hours

Our boys don't do as many hours as the girls, again this seems to be fairly normal.
Level 1 - 2 hours
Level 2 - 4 hours
Level 3 - 6 hours
Level 4-5 - 10 hours
Level 6-7 - 12 hours

 

[gymnast gold]

My sister is 9 and in level 3/5 internatioal she is doing 16 hours a week but needs a lot more work on her rountines