Is swimming "eating its young?" Are they being burned out with mindless yardage? Do they have to do volume training for long events? Are we missing masters swimmers who were burned out as youths? As to the kids, what can we do to stop the cannabalism?
There is a great article in the current ASCA magazine about training high school only swimmers. It advises making the feel like swimmers and make them feel they belong. Teach them starts and turns and technique. Don't worry about conditioning as the will get that working on those things. The author says that then some will want to make the jump to the USS team. rowdy Gaines and Ed Moses came to swimming at HS age and did well.
There is a great article in the current ASCA magazine about training high school only swimmers. It advises making the feel like swimmers and make them feel they belong. Teach them starts and turns and technique. Don't worry about conditioning as the will get that working on those things. The author says that then some will want to make the jump to the USS team. rowdy Gaines and Ed Moses came to swimming at HS age and did well.
