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?
Never had any c/d during my AG and HS swimming, unless you count all the screwinig around in the locker room after practice as c/d. This was BG, so your eyes were burning out of your head and needed cool down. Had a small c/d pool in college, but it was really too small to be useful during meets. Our coach did have us c/d after practices, so this was first time I encounterd a c/d concept after swimming.
At this point in my life, I like to c/d for about a 200 after finishing, as others have said just working on glide and DPS at an easy pace feels great. If I've just finished sets with board, fins or paddles, the c/d gives me a chance to feel the water after and without use of the training toys, which seems important to me, cause there is a big change in feeling.
Also, if I've been swimming all fr, it's a chance swim at least a couple of 50s or so of bk and br. Maybe at some point i'll even feel comfortable swimming easy stretching fly for c/d.
I've read strength training tri recommendations for w/u and c/d before dry land excercise/lifting sessions using a bike or tread mill - like 10 to 20 min on either as i recall - before you start and after you finish. This seems like a good idea.
My $.02
Never had any c/d during my AG and HS swimming, unless you count all the screwinig around in the locker room after practice as c/d. This was BG, so your eyes were burning out of your head and needed cool down. Had a small c/d pool in college, but it was really too small to be useful during meets. Our coach did have us c/d after practices, so this was first time I encounterd a c/d concept after swimming.
At this point in my life, I like to c/d for about a 200 after finishing, as others have said just working on glide and DPS at an easy pace feels great. If I've just finished sets with board, fins or paddles, the c/d gives me a chance to feel the water after and without use of the training toys, which seems important to me, cause there is a big change in feeling.
Also, if I've been swimming all fr, it's a chance swim at least a couple of 50s or so of bk and br. Maybe at some point i'll even feel comfortable swimming easy stretching fly for c/d.
I've read strength training tri recommendations for w/u and c/d before dry land excercise/lifting sessions using a bike or tread mill - like 10 to 20 min on either as i recall - before you start and after you finish. This seems like a good idea.
My $.02