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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many times the kids who are big (not just tall) and powerful at the younger ages end up being too big/heavy for swimming long term. Swimming is a sport that favors the naturally long and lean body type. [/quote]

Yep, football player build is not a good swimmer’s build (plus many of these kids end up overweight). [/quote]

Actually, a lot of that is controllable. A football player works out differently to a swimmer and their body looks different. A lot of kids, if they stuck to swimming would look different. [/quote]

Yeah, no. You can't engineer your body type.  :lol:  Just ask a whole generation of women who dreamed of being ballerinas as young girls.[/quote]

How many young girls do you know who play football? [/quote]

DP.  I know one.

But i am troubled by the analogies we are making in this thread about dancers and football players vs swimmers.  There are many beautiful dancers that don’t have the perfect ballerina “look”. The issues with body type and ballet are the last thing I’d want to see mirrored in swimming culture.   And there are lots of highly athletic football players that could be great swimmers!

If you work at maximizing your own body’s potential, it usually means you’re going to be pretty darn good at whatever you train for.
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I’m the PP. This is definitely what I was getting at. You just wrote it much better. [/quote]

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