Here's a thread for the ladies to discuss anything that relates to women and swimming. For example, feel free to discuss how disgustingly ugly fastskins are, how the "curse" can kill a meet, how suits don't fit, how swimming wrecks your hair, how hormones unhinge you, etc.
Heard some interesting gossip at an age group meet about an extremely fast 12 year old. Seems that Mom and coach are considering putting her on birth control pills to prevent the appearance of AF, so she can keep going great guns and not have any plateaus. What next?!
That is totally crazy. It's weird enough to think that parent and coach are considering BCPs as a PED whether or not the kid needs them for BC. But I don't even see how they would work as a PED. BCPs work in part by making your body seem just a little bit pregnant. So rather than slowing or preventing the physical changes that will accompany puberty for this kid, they will hasten some of them. And BCPs usually make you put on a little body fat, even if you are really trying not to put it on.
On the other hand, if the kid is really working out the way a kid that fast probably works out, her body fat without BCPs is likely to be so low that she will menstruate what, twice a year? I started swimming doubles at 12, and I don't think any of the girls I swam with in my teens ever had their periods during our most intense training of the year (August to November).
Heard some interesting gossip at an age group meet about an extremely fast 12 year old. Seems that Mom and coach are considering putting her on birth control pills to prevent the appearance of AF, so she can keep going great guns and not have any plateaus. What next?!
That is totally crazy. It's weird enough to think that parent and coach are considering BCPs as a PED whether or not the kid needs them for BC. But I don't even see how they would work as a PED. BCPs work in part by making your body seem just a little bit pregnant. So rather than slowing or preventing the physical changes that will accompany puberty for this kid, they will hasten some of them. And BCPs usually make you put on a little body fat, even if you are really trying not to put it on.
On the other hand, if the kid is really working out the way a kid that fast probably works out, her body fat without BCPs is likely to be so low that she will menstruate what, twice a year? I started swimming doubles at 12, and I don't think any of the girls I swam with in my teens ever had their periods during our most intense training of the year (August to November).
