From the thread on tapering:
For the last few weeks, I experiment with a meet warm-up.
I've never raced that much, and haven't been to a meet in a couple years except to watch, however, the thing that always bothered me most about meets was actually trying to warm up. I found it virtually impossible to do anything useful in a lane with 13 people, five of whom are chatting at the walls, and the other seven of whom were (trying to) do something much different than I was or doing it at a much different pace. I frequently would give up after a few minutes and just get out.
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Don't go into the warm-up pool with a preconceived idea of what your warm-up should be. Hold your ground when you need to, and be sensitive to those slower and faster than you are. Sometimes, as an older, slower swimmer, my warm-up consists of a long series of 25's. Not ideal, but it works for me.
No one swimmer's warm-up is more important than anothers's. If everyone remembered that, no one would be intimidated, bruised, or battered in the warm-up pool.
Don't go into the warm-up pool with a preconceived idea of what your warm-up should be. Hold your ground when you need to, and be sensitive to those slower and faster than you are. Sometimes, as an older, slower swimmer, my warm-up consists of a long series of 25's. Not ideal, but it works for me.
No one swimmer's warm-up is more important than anothers's. If everyone remembered that, no one would be intimidated, bruised, or battered in the warm-up pool.
