My coach today told me that cooling down at the end of practice was not good for the body. He said it could rip muscles that were just worked. I have always been taught that the cool down was important, especially after working hard and getting the heart rate up.
Keep in mind that this is an USA-S practice and those I'm swimming with are teenagers.
I'm curious what others think?
Actually when you have aerobic training with a heart rate not higher than 70% MHR there's no need in cooling down.
Long distance swimmers after having a hard workout might need 500 cool down. Sprinters definitely don't need that much.
I've read one man couple times even lost consciousness some minutes after racing - he never did a cool down. After race he felt very well but in couple minutes pain suddenly grew up in muscles and... black screen. That's the first time I've actually heard of someone affected so much by lactate.Sprint events typically produce much higher concentrations of lactate than distance events, so you may want to revisit this theory.
Actually when you have aerobic training with a heart rate not higher than 70% MHR there's no need in cooling down.
Long distance swimmers after having a hard workout might need 500 cool down. Sprinters definitely don't need that much.
I've read one man couple times even lost consciousness some minutes after racing - he never did a cool down. After race he felt very well but in couple minutes pain suddenly grew up in muscles and... black screen. That's the first time I've actually heard of someone affected so much by lactate.Sprint events typically produce much higher concentrations of lactate than distance events, so you may want to revisit this theory.
