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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are different things being discussed- are they plenty of area clubs that will happily take swimmers who want to swim somewhere between 2-3 days a week?  Yes, absolutely.   Can those same swimmers make JO cuts?  eh- maybe, probably not especially as they get older.  If your goal is to have a JO cut as a 10 or 12 year old, then go all in and swim 4-5 days a week.  If your goal is to have a happy well rounded kid, who enjoys swimming and also enjoys other things? Then swim 2 days a week, do other things too- let the kid decide when they want to start swimming more.  [b]There is plenty of research to show that swimming performance before puberty doesn't tell you much about what will happen post puberty.[/quote][/b]

This is true.  Watching this right now at our club.  A phenom swimmer at 10-12, is losing the phenom.  Still good, but all the kids going through puberty are now right there as well when there used to be a huge difference.  What I don't know is that a lot of the girls have gone through puberty and although tall now for their age look like that they will all be 5'4" and under.  Meanwhile there is a group of swimmers that are the same age and almost as fast/faster than the current giants.  Do the current short ones end up surpassing their peers once they hit puberty?  Puberty not only adds height but muscle and strength.[/quote]

Puberty is not always kind to girls who are strong and fast early. They often have a build that starts to work against them as they gain body fat and curves. It’s easy for them to swim faster than the girls who are taller and scrawnier pre-puberty, but things change as the scrawny girls put on just the right amount of mass to long and lean. For boys it can be the kid who is big or muscular for their age who dominates initially, but then stops growing early. Tall and skinny with a good work ethic and good feel for the water is probably the most likely to have success after puberty.[/quote]

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