3LittleGymmies
Proud Parent
- Mar 5, 2013
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Does your team gymnast do any other sports? My daughter has been asking to do a local recreational running club with her brother. It is a short-term thing, three months. It will end two weeks before the summer schedule at the gym begins. It is very flexible, they have practices four times a week but you can just attend when you can and as much as you want. She would only be available two of the days anyway due to gymnastics practice. It is one and a half hours long, but I am sure that they are not running the whole time. I am pretty sure that it is mostly just for fun, not a high pressure environment. And it is extremely affordable. It is intended to build them up to do a few 5K races. Her old gym (we moved states) had the girls do a lot of running. The parents actually did the math one day and it turned out to be a little under 3 miles before they even warmed up and practiced. Her new gym does not have them run at all. They are actually out of breath after their floor routines at meets often. Now that the floor routines will be getting even more detailed and the bar routines (she already has to "fight" for bar skills) will require more endurance. I am wondering if running would not be a bad idea after all. She also struggles with her FHS vault, and perhaps learning to run with more power (like in a race) would help that. I just do not want to put her body through "more" if it is a bad idea. She practices 15 hours per week and she is almost 9 1/2. Any thoughts?