My daughter will turn 9 later this year. I'm curious how many hours other gymnasts of a similar age are training? As a parent, I am trying to balance her love of gym and desire to progress/compete with overtraining/injuries.
Ours varied by level, not so much age.
USAG DP L2=7hrs, L3=10hrs, L4=12hrs, L5=15hrs, L6-7=18hrs, L8-10=20hrs
USAG Xcel practices fewer hours, but I don't know their schedules.
Thanks for the responses. Looks like our gym is on the high end of these ranges. My daughter is very keen so we are going to give it a go and keep an eye open for overuse/burnout.
My 8-year-old trains 16-hours per week. It’s a lot of hours. It’s really the absolute maximum he can do. But I know a 9-year-old TOPs girl who trains 26 hours! In general, I think 8-12 hours is about right for kids who are 8 to 10-years-old.
We have the ability to run extremely talented athletes at higher hours when needed... however... we have no one that needs it or wants it right now. My daughter ran up 27.5 hours/week. 7.5 hours of this was private lessons with me... so there was no need to do more than that.
If I could get everyone (parents) to buy in better... I would do this with our program...