Grades Training Hours

[SXS524]

Anyone here training for club grades (14-9) or know of them?
One of the clubs I coach for is looking into entering girls into the club grade competitions (currently they only do rec comps) so I was wondering what the average weekly hours of training was for each level?

 

[Iwannabemargo]

as far as I know there aren't any.

P&F did 12 this year and trains 9 1/2 hours a week, most of the girls I saw went 3 times a week for 2 hours + a session

She has not upped her hours as she has moved through the grades.

 

[SXS524]

Thanks for the reply Margo I was guessing around those training hours. The club I coach at is limited on hours and space so was trying to work out whether club grades would be realistic!

 

[Iwannabemargo]

its not so much hours as the skill set, its not huge for 14 as long as they can do the R&C

 

[SXS524]

Agreed the hardest thing about grade 14 seems to be the R&C especially getting all three splits! The Bars routine seems to be a matter of strength rather then skill!

 

[Faith]

It varies. I know of one club who put girls in for 14 on 24 hrs+ a week. I know of others who manage to compete grades on 9 hours. Then there are those in between.

 

[Hayleigh]

At my club club grades 14 and 13 are done on 10 hours a week and then go up to doing 14hours. I'm currently doing national grade 8 and me and the other grade 8s at my club train 16hours a week.

 

[Uglybetty]

Our club has only relatively recently started doing club grades and all the girls doing them train between 3 and 9 hours a week (although they've said 6+ hours minimum for comps and I'm not sure if the same rule will apply to grades or whether they'll just take longer to get their skills).

 

[xx claire xx]

Wow lots have changed since I competed 10yrs ago (feel old) I did the old club grades 3,2,1 & vol 1 and trained 20hrs a wk. my DD is 3 and does pre-school gym which she loves so just put her name down for rec classes for when she turns 4.

 

[Learning Parent GB]

My DD will be doing grade 13 this year on 7.5 hours a week. The most hours available round here are 8.5 hours a week!

 

[Katie123]

My girls are doing grade 14 this year and they currently do 4 hours a week (this will be increasing throughout the year though)

 

[SXS524]

Thanks for the responses everyone! Crazy that training hours for grade 14 vary between 4-24 hours!! I've just started a development squad and they will start by training 3 hours a week (one session a week) I'm hoping I'll be able to increase their hours nearer summer though!

 

[Uglybetty]

To be fair I think that part of the reason for the vast difference is the amount of up-training gyms do. My DD's gym do a lot of up-training. So whilst she's doing grade 14 on 9 hours a considerable amount of that time is spent conditioning and on skill progressions that are further up the grade structure.