I'm starting one very soon, 4 and 5 year old girls that will be coming 2 days a week, 2 hours at a time. Essentially it's a promising group the compulsory coach is interested in; and whos parents have expressed trying out a more serious program in the hopes of joining the older pre team and possibly level 4 in the future. I work at a seriously competitive gym, and my instructions are that this class is a feeder/weeder (nice term eh?!). Age appropriate skills with the addition of conditioning and flexibility. The assumption is that those who stick with it ill acclimate to team better, and those that have more pressing obligations or who don't like it will drop back to rec.
My question is: how much formal conditioning should I do? A lot of what they will be learning is shapes and drills. I've never actually conditioned a group this young before. I expect they will probably not like it at first, and though losing some is expected, I don't want them to drop off right away over being sore or not liking the stress. Then again I'm not supposed to be entirely lax, as our compulsories do a significant amount of conditioning.
Any suggestions on how to start a conditioning program I can expand on would be greatly appreciated.
My question is: how much formal conditioning should I do? A lot of what they will be learning is shapes and drills. I've never actually conditioned a group this young before. I expect they will probably not like it at first, and though losing some is expected, I don't want them to drop off right away over being sore or not liking the stress. Then again I'm not supposed to be entirely lax, as our compulsories do a significant amount of conditioning.
Any suggestions on how to start a conditioning program I can expand on would be greatly appreciated.
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