Anon Long conditioning break?

[Anonymous (c371)]

My daughter (training L7) is in the process of trying out some different gyms. She practiced with one local team for their full four hour practice, but they didn’t do any conditioning. When I asked the coach about it, she said they take a break from conditioning from around regionals until June. She said once June starts they hit conditioning hard.

Is this common? Our current gym conditions year round (less on meet weeks) and I would think the gymnasts would lose strength during an approximate six week break, but maybe it gives muscles a chance to recover and heal?

 

[Coach Kate]

I haven't heard of that myself. I think it's common to back off a little right before meets but even then we'd always still do our basic bar conditioning (as an athlete myself and with my athletes as a coach). In that case, bar conditioning was part of our warm up for a lot of our levels and was honestly meant to reinforce a lot of shaping as well.

 

[Anonymous (254d)]

I've never heard of that before. Strength is essential in getting new skills, and maintaining old ones

 

[JBS]

I have not heard of this before. A change in strength... yes... but not no strength.

 

[JustAGirlWhoLovesGym]

My gym does not do this, and I have not heard of this before. If anything, we emphasize conditioning more when regionals is over and throughout the off-season.

 

[Anonymous (82dd)]

As far as I can tell, my son’s team (MAG optionals and junior elite) only does about 10 minutes of conditioning per 4-hour practice! I don’t think anyone would notice if they skipped it.

 

[Anonymous (924b)]

I think 10 minutes of conditioning sound really strange at the elite level. Unless they're doing out-of-practice strength training or something like that. Maybe they're doing it as side stations or the like. Or maybe I'm totally wrong about it. lol

 

[Anonymous (82dd)]

I think 10 minutes of conditioning sound really strange at the elite level. Unless they're doing out-of-practice strength training or something like that. Maybe they're doing it as side stations or the like. Or maybe I'm totally wrong about it. lol

It is a little weird. The high schoolers take weightlifting for PE at school. Practices are increasing from 4 hours to 5 hours over the summer and I’m guessing that extra hour will be conditioning.