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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many parents on here saying you shouldn’t swim more than 2x per week in elementary school have their kid go to summer league practice 5x a week? I’d be willing to bet all of them!!!![/quote]
Respectfully, that’s apples to oranges. The club practices for high potential swimmers are intense. The debate at hand is how many days of that is appropriate for an age group swimmer without risking burnout, injury, or prematurely peaking. While Im sure it varies by team and division, the average summer league practice is the yardage and intensity equivalent of a club practice warm up and cool down for the elite age group practices for club. I love summer swim for a lot of reasons, but I’d argue it’s not relevant to this conversation. [/quote]

The number of days DOES NOT matter!!!!!!!!

Club practices for 7-9 year old should not be intense!!!!!!!

If your 7-9 year old is doing more than learning to turn, kick, drill, and swim perfectly, with a few 25s-50s race here and there, then they are 1000% more likely to burn out even if they are going 1 or 2 days a week than another 7-9 year old who is doing 4 days a week but only focusing on learning to turn, kick, drill, and swim perfectly[/quote]

Burnout isn’t just about overtraining. It’s also about getting bored doing the same thing over and over. A little kid doing drills 4 days a week is more likely to get bored with swimming at a younger age than someone who starts swimming more frequently later. You can love something and still get bored if it’s literally 8-10 years or more. [/quote]

The key question is - does your kid want to go, or are you pushing him/her go?  If the former, then burnout is less of an issue.  If the latter, burnout will happen sooner or later.[/quote]

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