important please answer?!
Question: is this normal?
my 14 yr old daughter does gymnastics.
in order to REMAIN on the team, she must go every day(7-days per week, no days off [not even holidays such as Christmas])
for 8 hours. (time: 3pm-11pm)
for the first three hours, she and her team of girls must do 5000 situps, 2000 pushups, 7500 squat-leglifts, and must stay in a backbend for 1 hour.
for the next hour, they drop heavy weights (100 lbs) on their stomachs to make their abs stronger.
then, the next 4 hours are for dancing.
anyways-- is this rigerous routine normal for yound girls?
my daughter Crystal is so tired, so over-worked, and very very WORN OUT. she wants to do gym-dancing, and she never complains, but her unbelieval pain is very harsh.
is this normal for gym-teams? what do i do?
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i am totally shocked that you are actually having to even ask if this is normal. That poor daughter of yours! Shes a young girl who is suffering with extreme tirdness and unbelievable pain and yet u ask if this is normal?Tell u what. re read what ur question was until u eventually come to the same conclsion that most other will come to. Im not going to even justify such a qestion with an answer. Bet shes having a great childhood(NOT!)Shame on u! I am disgusted u put ur daughter through so much. ..
I have now just read some of your other questions and on one of them you say your are 20 years old(in the question regarding your SO CALLED wax experience. You are saying to us that u have a 14 year old daughter...oh really? So u were 6 when u gave birth to her...were u? U TOTAL FRUITCAKE!!! No doubt there are a whole bunch of online readers thinking the same.weirdo!!
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NO, sounds as if she is training for the Olympics in Russia!
IF IT IS GETTING ON TO HER HEALTH ,PAIN & FINALLY LIFE...THEN TELL IS GYMNASTICS MORE IMP OR THE LIFE OF YOUR DAUGHTER...
Normal? No way! 5000 situps, dropping weights on their stomachs? That sounds crazy! You should research the gym and find out if that is appropriate. I took gymnastics for 7 years and we did not train like that.
you shouldnt even have to ask this. no its not normal.. look into taking her elsewhere, in the meantime tell her to stay home
no no no no no no no! this is very not healthy for her and all the other girls induring this! stop this immidiatly! Her body is being put through WAY TOO MUCH! and to make it worse there is no healing between these nightmarish workouts she is doing so much damage and not healing. this must stop and report these people who support and allow this behavior this instructor needs charges of abuse brought against him/her/them!
no that sounds like way to much at my gym the team goes 2 or 3 days a week for 4 hours
NO! I have coached for years, have a bachelors degree in exercise and sport science and trained in a gym where an Olympian was training. This type of work out is not only excessive but dangerous. In peak training I would have girls do 200 reps of any given exercise but they would be spaced out in sets with recovery time inbetween. They would also do several different exercises for the same muscle group. For example 100 crunches, 100 v snaps, 100 leg lifts etc. If they are doing 1000's of the exact same exercise they will not get the overall muscle shaping that they need. The Olympian that trained at my gym was going 7 days a week at the end but they did take breaks now and then. Major holidays are just a given. She conditioned from 6 - 9 am, went to school and came back to gym from 1 - 6. Stretching does take some time but I would go with 10 min segments. Here again they should be doing many different stretches not just backbends (which I don't even have my girls do at all). Weights should not be dropped on people. I am a strict coach and have had more that 1 parent think I was too hard but what you are describing is ludacris and abusive in my opinion. Go to other gyms and watch their workouts and try to talk to other parents. Disipline is one thing but if more of your athletes burn out than become successful there is some thing wrong with your methods. Remember you are the parent and if your gut is telling you something just isn't right you are probably right. Good luck!
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