Parents Practice Time Poll: JO Women Levels 4-8

[gymmommy123]

DD, age 7 (1st grade) L3 practices M/Wed/Thurs 4-8 pm. Makes for a bit of a late night with the nearly one hr drive home. Sure am glad they don't go any later than that!

 

[mariposa]

Level 7 (training level 8 for next year) 19.5 hours/week. 4 nights a week 4pm-8pm and Saturdays 3.5 hours.

 

[mariposa]

Compulsories do 4:30pm-7:30pm. 3 nights a week for levels 2/3 and 4 nights a week for 4/5. Xcel does 2 hour workouts 2 or 3 times a week.

 

[Azgymmiemom]

My dd did level 8 this past season. ,2:30 to 7pm. Mon, tue, Thur Fri and 8 to 1 sat

 

[dchawkfan]

L7...practice Monday thru Friday 2:30-5:30 during school year (leaves school early each day). During summer, 9:00-noon Monday thru Friday.

 

[Bajanswife]

All levels practice between 3.30 and 6.30 (7 on Fridays) - it's just that the number of days increases as you move up. Some groups also practice on Saturday mornings. Kids really can't stay at gym much longer than that - most kids have to be out the door in the morning for school around 7 a.m., so bedtimes are earlier here. As it is we don't get home from gym until almost 7 at night, and there's still dinner, homework and bath to do before bed. There's no way we could train any later than that.

 

[tooootsie]

My kiddos are JO 3, but they practice from 4:30 to 8:00 PM

 

[gymmomtoo]

All team kids are done with practice by 8 p.m. and level 8-10 start at 3:30. Level 7 started at 4. 8-10s are 20.5 hr/week (during school year) and 7s are 15 hrs/week (school year)

 

[gracyomalley]

level 8, 330-730 M-F

 

[2gymkids]

My daughter isn't on team yet but from what I can see the 4-6 time frame M-Th is for rec/developmental with team kids coming in at 5:30 (excel T/Th, JO M/W). I think Excel practices until 8, not sure about JO (we're there T/Th so we don't typically see them). Then there are no rec classes on Friday and JO practices right after school. Saturday mornings are for rec only, afternoons are for JO.

 

[Ali'sMom]

This year was L3, Tues & Thurs 4-7pm and sat 11-2
She moving up to L4 in May, and will be Mon/Wed/Thur/Fri 3:00-6:00, but in the fall she's hitting middle school that doesn't get out until 3:45, and will have to shift to the 5:10-8:10 schedule on those days. I'm praying for a 4-7pm change for next school year though

 

[munchkin3]

L4 up go 6-9. pretty flexible on the days with a minimum of 3 days.
usually L4 goes 3 days, L5 goes 4 days etc.

Boys go also L5 and up from 3 days to 5 days depending on the level.

 

[gymmutti]

I am very jealous of those of you who are out of the gym by 7:30 or 8pm. My optional DD goes until 9pm and my compulsory goes until 8pm - but since her sister is done at 9, we have to wait for her. We have a 30+ min drive home which means my youngest, age 8, doesn't go to bed until close to 10pm on school nights and the bus comes at 7:10am. This is not good but I'm not sure if there really is a solution. Our L8-L10 are mostly in middle in high school which starts earlier in the morning - it would be nice if their practice began at 3:30 and went to 7:30 and then the younger /compulsory kids who don't practice as long could go for 2.5 - 3 hrs a day for 4 or 5 days (4:30-7:30 or 5-8). As it stands, the compulsory kids start practice at 4pm and the optionals start at 5.