Hello. I found this forum while searching for an answer to my question. My son is a 14 year old high school swimmer and has just completed his meet season. He did not make state finals, so at the current time he is not swimming (or working on dry lands). The coach is focused on the kids who made it to state and they are currently swimming. My concern is that while he has made some huge improvements, how long is too long out of the pool? I encouraged him to start running for 30-45 minutes but compared to the 3-4 hours a day he was in the pool it doesn’t seem like enough. From my understanding he will be out for 3-4 weeks total. I just hate to see him lose the edge he’s worked so hard for.
He is not in any other sports in school. The swim program here is just swim, not athletics where they can participate in track, baseball etc., so other than what we’re doing at home, he has no other conditioning time. Their high school team has a tough regime and they swim all year long (other than kids that don’t make state and are sitting out right now). I just hate to see him work for 3-4 months to get back to the same place he was 3 weeks ago after this break.
From his 8th grade year meet times (roughly 10 months ago) his 50/100/200 freestyle times are down approximately 15-20%. His other times in *** and butterfly are down about the same.
I know you can find anything online, as I have stumbled across articles indicating loss of flexibility specific to swimming after a few weeks hiatus as well.
Thanks for reading the long long winded posts. To answer clearly, concern of burning him out is also there. I just see incredible potential with him and hate to see him work so hard for the last 10 months to lose some
of it. We do a lot of hunting and fishing which is fun, but not the greatest conditioning exercise possible.
He is not in any other sports in school. The swim program here is just swim, not athletics where they can participate in track, baseball etc., so other than what we’re doing at home, he has no other conditioning time. Their high school team has a tough regime and they swim all year long (other than kids that don’t make state and are sitting out right now). I just hate to see him work for 3-4 months to get back to the same place he was 3 weeks ago after this break.
From his 8th grade year meet times (roughly 10 months ago) his 50/100/200 freestyle times are down approximately 15-20%. His other times in *** and butterfly are down about the same.
I know you can find anything online, as I have stumbled across articles indicating loss of flexibility specific to swimming after a few weeks hiatus as well.
Thanks for reading the long long winded posts. To answer clearly, concern of burning him out is also there. I just see incredible potential with him and hate to see him work so hard for the last 10 months to lose some
of it. We do a lot of hunting and fishing which is fun, but not the greatest conditioning exercise possible.
