I have a 12 year old son who has been swimming USA-s for 5 years.
He loves swimming.
He just came home from an intensive swim camp(overnite) that lasted 5 days.
He also attended this camp last year.
Last year when he returned from camp he was hesitant to return to his team. He loved the training at camp. I brushed it off.
This year he's upset about returning to his usa-s team again and quite disgusted. After 5 days of learn new drills and almost revamping mosts of his races he just regrets training with his team. He says he loves the people but hates the sets. He says they have been doing the same drills for the past 5 years.
Now as a parent I have observed the coach writing a workout on the white board and then just spacing off but since I'm a new swimmer..i figured..what did I know?
What do I do...change teams???? We are saturated here in western pa.
He's not a diva but a technically beautiful swimmer. And he loves his sport.
Would it hurt to drop a year around club and he would just swim middle school?? Or find him another USA-s team?
Thanks for reading and any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Any camp of such kind is like a presentation. They present different innovative things, teach to use them. Though swimming in your team it's a different thing it's a daily work which should be done. Camps don't include annual planning but it is necessary to do it in your daily trainings. If your son is a good swimmer mainly it's not desert of the camp but of his coach and his team. He should not mix 2 things: camp is designed to inspire swimmer and teach new things, swimming team and coach are to help in your daily growth. Any team has daily routine and it's kinda boring to do all these sets every day but it's impossible to grow without that. Swimming isn't a kind of sport where results come next day or week or even month. Planning is usually done for half a year.
Now the question when it worth to change the team? 1 - when results are not growing for more than 1 year but even in that case it's better to talk to the coach first. 2 if there are serious misunderstandings in the team or between the team and the coach. Without unity in the team there will be no growth.
Any camp of such kind is like a presentation. They present different innovative things, teach to use them. Though swimming in your team it's a different thing it's a daily work which should be done. Camps don't include annual planning but it is necessary to do it in your daily trainings. If your son is a good swimmer mainly it's not desert of the camp but of his coach and his team. He should not mix 2 things: camp is designed to inspire swimmer and teach new things, swimming team and coach are to help in your daily growth. Any team has daily routine and it's kinda boring to do all these sets every day but it's impossible to grow without that. Swimming isn't a kind of sport where results come next day or week or even month. Planning is usually done for half a year.
Now the question when it worth to change the team? 1 - when results are not growing for more than 1 year but even in that case it's better to talk to the coach first. 2 if there are serious misunderstandings in the team or between the team and the coach. Without unity in the team there will be no growth.
