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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Warming up can be an absolute nightmare. Like other people have said, get there early so that you can get a good 400-500 in before it gets crowded.
After you have done that it isn't too hard to do a set of 50's where you build your pace. If there are slower swimmers in front just go past them.
By then the sprint lanes should be ready to go to to some simple sprint efforts and then you should be good to go.
It can be really annoying sometimes but it is really just a matter of loosening up and getting a good feel for the water.
Warming up can be an absolute nightmare. Like other people have said, get there early so that you can get a good 400-500 in before it gets crowded.
After you have done that it isn't too hard to do a set of 50's where you build your pace. If there are slower swimmers in front just go past them.
By then the sprint lanes should be ready to go to to some simple sprint efforts and then you should be good to go.
It can be really annoying sometimes but it is really just a matter of loosening up and getting a good feel for the water.
