Building up endurance - 9 year old kid

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Former Member
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!
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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 9 years ago
    Hi, Started this thread in 2013 to get ideas on how to improve 9yo's endurance and what to feed her etc. I've got the best answers from you guys. Then post after post, it was about training sets per week and times as I was interested to know if she's on the right path and what other clubs/coaches do. I'm trying to share as well as try to understand what others do in different age groups and what are the results. Sorry to bother those are not interested.
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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 9 years ago
    Hi, Started this thread in 2013 to get ideas on how to improve 9yo's endurance and what to feed her etc. I've got the best answers from you guys. Then post after post, it was about training sets per week and times as I was interested to know if she's on the right path and what other clubs/coaches do. I'm trying to share as well as try to understand what others do in different age groups and what are the results. Sorry to bother those are not interested.
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