Training of Young Swimmers: Does Intense Swim Training Cause Long Term Damaging Effects? Pt. 2

Summary of 10 Sources

Leonard, J. (2008). The Purpose of Athletics in the School Environment. ASCA Newsletter. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ASCA. 8: 4.

Leonard writes about a discussion that he had with the president of the NCAA. He writes about how athletics correlates into education and how athletics is a must have in the education process. He says that there is no better place for a real world laboratory than the laboratory of athletic competitions. And the goal for universities is to teach real life situations and applications. This can fit into my article as an argument for why training of swimmers, intense or not, is a valuable life long asset.

Goldsmith, W. Recovery Based Training ASCA Online Volume, DOI:

Goldsmith presents an alternative type of training that has been used more and more frequently. You design workouts and training sessions around the recovery time of your athletes. In a large team setting I think that this would be very difficult to do, but for individual training it can be useful. This ties into my topic as a way to train younger swimmers instead of high intense work sessions. It can give a very good workout, but not tax the body of a younger swimmer the way a traditional workout would.

Edson, G. (2009). Dryland Training. FINIS Tenessee Vols Coaches Clinic. Knoxville, Tenessee.

This was a power point presentation that Guy Edson gave at the coache’s clinic. In this presentation he talks of the importance of starting young swimmers in dryland programs, not to build muscles, but to improve the neuro-pathways that help deliver the messages from the muscles to the brain. He points out that it was use to be thought that young pre puberty children should not be doing dryland because they do not build the muscle. Guy states that it may not build muscle, but help develop coordination, and the future building blocks of muscle development.