Hi,
I've been following this forum for more then a year and this is my first post here.
My daughter is 9 years old and she has been swimming for 2 years. For the last 8 months she's been training 4 days per week; half-hour dryland, one hour pool. She is a happy swimmer and they have great friendship within the team. Her free and breaststroke styles are quite fine. Her short-course(25m) 50meter times are: Free 40 ; Back 48 ; *** 51 ; Fly 50
But whenever she's in a meet, her stamina drops clearly at around 35m. As for the freestyle, her 25meter time is around 16 seconds. She usually turns before her friends, falls behind at last 15meter. It disappoints her.
How can we help her to build up her endurance?
What should we have her eat before the meet? Should we take her out for jogging, hiking, biking or any other physical activity? All suggestions and hints are appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
The thing with stroke analysis and adjustment is unless there is very frequent reinforcement most of the lessons are lost. I could spend an entire practice working on flip turns and streamlines and if I don’t reinforce the lessons it will take less than 2 weeks for everyone to fall back on prior habits.
But, the first thing to do is schedule a meeting with the coach. Lay out your daughter’s dissatisfaction with her progress and your thoughts on outside help. Ask the coach for suggestions.
If the coach is against private lessons or incorporating corrective drills, then it seems your daughter has 2 alternatives; 1 – leave the team she is very happy with in pursuit of a team that will help her achieve swimming goals, or 2 – stay with her team and realign her goals with more realistic expectations.
The thing with stroke analysis and adjustment is unless there is very frequent reinforcement most of the lessons are lost. I could spend an entire practice working on flip turns and streamlines and if I don’t reinforce the lessons it will take less than 2 weeks for everyone to fall back on prior habits.
But, the first thing to do is schedule a meeting with the coach. Lay out your daughter’s dissatisfaction with her progress and your thoughts on outside help. Ask the coach for suggestions.
If the coach is against private lessons or incorporating corrective drills, then it seems your daughter has 2 alternatives; 1 – leave the team she is very happy with in pursuit of a team that will help her achieve swimming goals, or 2 – stay with her team and realign her goals with more realistic expectations.
