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!
Easy to say, but sometimes hard to do... (at least it was hard for me). Also one sad thing that I often notice is that most of the talented kids at their early ages do not develop further and get lost over the years. So I do agree "no pushing" till they realize themselves what they wanna do.
USA Swimming offers many articles and features on how to not be a crazy parent. I would also refer you to Swimming World and swimswam.com, both good sources of effective swim parenting.
If I wanted to talk about age group parenting I would simply go to any one of the 50+ kid meets I attend annually. There I can hear all about all the 9 year old Olympians for hours on end.
Easy to say, but sometimes hard to do... (at least it was hard for me). Also one sad thing that I often notice is that most of the talented kids at their early ages do not develop further and get lost over the years. So I do agree "no pushing" till they realize themselves what they wanna do.
USA Swimming offers many articles and features on how to not be a crazy parent. I would also refer you to Swimming World and swimswam.com, both good sources of effective swim parenting.
If I wanted to talk about age group parenting I would simply go to any one of the 50+ kid meets I attend annually. There I can hear all about all the 9 year old Olympians for hours on end.
