GymnastMomX2
Proud Parent
My 9 year old daughter is so OVER her team zoom workouts, and conditioning list. How hard should I push her towards doing it?
A little info, her coaches have Zoom meetings 3x a week in the afernoons for ~3hours; this is split into 3 rotations, conditioning, bars/vault and beam/floor. (they use a floor bar for drills, and low beam for basics). They also have a conditioning list sent home to do on their own, recommending 4-5x a week. A small subset of parents have a 2x a week video chat where the girls do the list together twice a week. We’ve been doing that once a week. So she’s doing the 3x a week w/ coaches plus the extra day w/ a few of her friends.
She’s at the point now where she doesn’t really want to do any of the conditioning. Its hard, its boring, she came to me sobbing earlier this week mid-workout asking to stop. I’ve asked her if she wants to quit gymnastics and she is adamant that she doesn’t saying she just wants life to go back to normal and do real gymnastics, and she still talks about big goals of being a level 7 next season. (she was level 4 last fall, and was supposed to score out of 5 this fall and compete 6 or 7 in the spring). I think even getting to 6 will be a long shot now, but haven't said that to her of course, and I'm not worried about levels at all.
We’ve explained that if she doesn’t put in some of the work now, going back in the gym is going to be really really hard, but she’s 9, I don’t think she gets it.
Any advice on what to say to her? I don’t want to force her to do anything that's making her miserable, but I also don’t want her sitting on her iPad all afternoon while I’m working from home, and she needs some exercise regardless. Its nice for me having her have structured time in the afternoon so I can get work done.
A little info, her coaches have Zoom meetings 3x a week in the afernoons for ~3hours; this is split into 3 rotations, conditioning, bars/vault and beam/floor. (they use a floor bar for drills, and low beam for basics). They also have a conditioning list sent home to do on their own, recommending 4-5x a week. A small subset of parents have a 2x a week video chat where the girls do the list together twice a week. We’ve been doing that once a week. So she’s doing the 3x a week w/ coaches plus the extra day w/ a few of her friends.
She’s at the point now where she doesn’t really want to do any of the conditioning. Its hard, its boring, she came to me sobbing earlier this week mid-workout asking to stop. I’ve asked her if she wants to quit gymnastics and she is adamant that she doesn’t saying she just wants life to go back to normal and do real gymnastics, and she still talks about big goals of being a level 7 next season. (she was level 4 last fall, and was supposed to score out of 5 this fall and compete 6 or 7 in the spring). I think even getting to 6 will be a long shot now, but haven't said that to her of course, and I'm not worried about levels at all.
We’ve explained that if she doesn’t put in some of the work now, going back in the gym is going to be really really hard, but she’s 9, I don’t think she gets it.
Any advice on what to say to her? I don’t want to force her to do anything that's making her miserable, but I also don’t want her sitting on her iPad all afternoon while I’m working from home, and she needs some exercise regardless. Its nice for me having her have structured time in the afternoon so I can get work done.