Reply to 4am Morning Practice?!?! Bell

Forum Index » Sports General Discussion

Reply to "4am Morning Practice?!?! Bell "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an NCAA college-scholarship swimmer. Even in college, I never had 5 mornings a week that early. In HS it was MWF mornings at 5:30 am and Saturday at 7 am. College it was MWF swim at 5:30 am, Tues Th weight training at 6 am and Saturdays was swim at 8 am.

I was also sleep deprived, sick quite a bit, and eventually depressed. As a parent, I will not let my children do morning workouts during the school week. The culture of swimming needs to change. [/quote]

Same here. In HS we did 3 mornings per week, 5 nights per week, and 2-3 hours each on Sat and Sun. So 10 practices per week. Thankfully in college it was a little less due to NCAA rules. 5:30 am on Tues/Thurs only and no practice on Sundays. But the weight/dryland training was much harder in college.

I cursed the alarm clock every. single. time. it went off at 5 am. I am not a morning person so I really don't know how I did it. I do remember nodding off in certain classes and my parents being concerned about how much sleep I was getting. But I was determined and my grades were very good, multiple AP courses, etc. I always packed my swim bag the night before and my parents let another parent drive me to morning practice while they did evening shift. I remember that I would literally sleep in the 10 min it took to get over to the pool.

4 am would be a hard no. It is not possible to go to bed early enough to make that work. My parents would not have allowed it and I would have quit. I didn't grow up here and the DC swimming culture seems kind of insane. One big problem here is you can't get anywhere quickly because of traffic/sprawl. OP, you need to find a carpool either for your swimmer child or the other kids. Your swimmer kid should not have to swim 5 mornings a week. Let them do 2 or 3 mornings max with the others being evening 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