Reply to How to make early morning practices a positive experience

Forum Index » Swimming and Diving

Reply to "How to make early morning practices a positive experience "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your child is swimming early mornings before school and you think your child is getting enough sleep, performing well in school, and is overall in a good routine, can you please share what works for you?  Do you practice 5 days a week to stay on a consistent schedule?  What time do they go to bed?  How much and what do they eat before early morning practices?  Do you let them eat in the car on the way to practice to maximize sleep?  How do you get them awake enough to start practice? How often are they also swimming or doing conditioning in the afternoons if they are regular morning swimmers?  [/quote]
My kid’s group (MS aged kids) do not do 2 a days, but they do practice 2x a week in the early mornings. My DC goes to bed around 9 and has to be up around 4:30-4:40 (we thankfully live 5 minutes from the pool) on those 2 days. DC does not eat before practice (the practice is 90 minutes), but does have a protein heavy breakfast after practice before going to school (smoothie or shake, avocado toast, yogurt, etc.). Because it’s only 2x a week, they just deal with it. Since there is no evening practice on the days they go in the morning they fall asleep earlier on those nights. DC practices 5-6 days a week, whenever DC has a week where they need a break and skip a practice they definitely choose to skip one of the morning practices. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics