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Ok but 5 days a week still likely means that kid is only swimming. No time for other sports, already specializing at ages 9-10.

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Doing something for 45 minutes of your day means there is no time to do anything else???[/quote]

I don't really understand this 45 minutes of your day comment- we are talking about club swimming.  I'm not aware of any club swim practice that is 45 minutes- minimum is one hour, frequently if it is 1.5 hours.  I have one kid who swims 1.5 hours 3x a week.  That means that about 40 minutes after they get home from school, they need to be getting in a swim suit and departing for the pool.  They get home from swimming about 6:30pm, fairly tired, need to eat dinner, do homework etc.  My other kid swims 1 hour 2x a week.  That kid definitely has more time, but that 1 hour represents time in the water- the actual time to get to and from swimming is still more like 2 hours- when you include driving and changing time (and definitely some dawdling in the showers with friend's time).  [/quote]

The 45 minute comments has to do with the fact that all club teams that produce the best 17-18 year old year in and year out offer at a minimum 4 practices a week for their lowest level groups but practices for those group were at most 1 hour with almost all of them being 45 min and some even 30 minutes.

The reason I point this out is in this thread the general consensus is that if you swim more than twice a week before the age of 11 you are 1000% going to “burn out” and that those going twice or less will be better than that kids 999 out of 1000 times yet that just isn’t the case in the entire rest of the country.[/quote]

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