For those who aren't familiar with two-a-days, the term is used to describe when sports teams have two practices during the day. While this type of training is popular especially over the summer, there are a few teams that continue these types of practices into the academic school year.

While I have experienced two-a-days during my high school days in both the summer and the school year, I think that they should be banned when school starts. At my high school, the school day started at 7:45 a.m. and ended at 2:45 p.m. When I had early morning swim practice, I had to wake up at 5:00 a.m. and wouldn't be done until 5:00 p.m. I'd arrive at home at 5:30, and after eating dinner, I usually couldn't start homework until after 6:00 p.m. Our coach encouraged us to go to bed at 8:00 p.m. Yet, with only two hours to do the homework that was assigned that day, and six classes that could easily require an hour a day, the feat of going to bed seemed nearly impossible. There were days where I had to stay up past midnight to finish everything that was assigned that day. Some of my teammates had to stay up until 3 a.m. to get everything done and then woke up again at 5 a.m.