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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to the pediatrician and get blood work to rule out anemia or something along those lines, but I agree that she probably needs to change up her training if she truly wants to see improvements. At 17 females are not just going to drop time from continued hard training in fact, you can work against yourself with over training. It’s the whole work smarter not harder thing. She needs to get in the weight room and do plyometrics to work on explosiveness. Those will make her starts and turns faster. Putting on lean muscle and maybe dropping a little bit of body fat can make a huge difference. When I was around that age, I had a surprisingly high amount of body fat despite all the swimming and being nowhere near overweight. When I started taking weight training and dryland seriously I transformed my body and dropped time in every event. You have to train differently post puberty than before ans during.[/quote]

DH will love it if dryland is the answer. :) He's been saying that all year. (Junior year schedule is just brutal though and so finding the time for it has felt impossible to DD). We see the ped end of this week though as a starting point and are also doing a sit down the day before with her coach (without DD).

- OP [/quote]

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