Swimming practice is 8 times a week. Is our coach making us practice too much?

yes that in my opinion is way to much you should only go like 6

mmm... I think it depends what level you are at, I am assuming its rather high! 8 times is not too much however the only thing i would ask myself is where are you going to go next? I am a swimming coach myself and I do not like to encourage my swimmers to do that much because i think to help keep their interest in the sport they need to build into that many hours a week.

NO it is definitley not. If you were a younger swimmer, then maybe it would be, but at your age you can handle it. Over the past few weeks, here's what my high school team's schedule was like over Winter Break: M,T,W,Th,F 2x2hr practice, and a 3 hr practice on Sat. We got Sundays off and Christmas and New Year's Day off. It seems like a lot, and if you're working hard you should feel sore (it seems like you've been ditching, so you might be a little less sore), but you do improve, and once you get into taper your hard work will be rewarded. P.S. For the younger kids on the team, 8 a week is probably a bit much. And also, how much you practice depens on what part of the season you're in. Towards the beginning, you may be just getting into shape, so you'll go a bit less, and when you're tapering for the end of season, you'll do less, but in the middle of season you'll be doing more.

No. Turst me it's worth it. If you didn't practice that much you'd lose your consistancy. I was on the Varsity team during the high school girls fall season, we swam for two hours before school and two and half after school. Plus saturdays, thats eleven practices a week! I never missed a practice. Two weeks after it was over I could hardly do what I did during the season. If you can't handle all eight practices right off then skipping is okay if the coach permits it, try slowly easing into 8 times a week. Your times will definitly reflect all your hard work. People who don't swim don't understand how much effort it takes. It really is possibly the hardest sport. You have to think over whether you really like it ecause you either really like it and totally commit yourself, or you don't like it and maybe you are just wasting your time. You decide. I may be alone here but I think if you have something, a sport orwomething, that you can just work really hard at, you are a more balanced person.

one of my friends swims 6 morning practices mon-sat. then night practices 5 nights mon-fri. the rest of my friends and i swim 6 night practices and 1 morning practices. but you are about my friends age and we can hardly stand the practices so it would be good to take a day of a week of for you and your health and mental health.

Yes, but man JUST TRUST ME BECAUSE IT'S REALLY WORTH IT!

Way too much! In the summer we only practice 5 times a week!

this is a bit extreme... wen i did year round swim i swam 1.5 hours on week days and 2 on saturday. but it pays off.

It all depends on where are you now on his training plan, and when is competition going to start , and when did you start your training. Usually this heavy and full schedule trainings are used when competition is very close and you need to gain form within a very short time. If so, your trainings are very useful only for that competition as this form will end fast as you gain it fast. But if your competition is not even close, someone should speak to your coach about that and see what is his point about that training plan.