Having short club meet this weekend and swimming only 2 50m events. (fr and br).
I've always used to warm up before any events but I heard many times folks telling that there's no need to warm up for 50 and some even told it's not recommended. The question is addressed mainly to sprinters: What do you think? Do you warm up before 50 events? If you do warm up for 50s, could you pls type some examples?
I'll definitely warm up for a 50, mostly because I've noticed that if I'm doing multiple sprints in a workout, my times tend to drop a bit on the 2nd and 3rd reps. Why? I don't know. But they do.
That said, my better races in Greensboro were not immediately preceeded by a 2nd (or 3rd) warmup just prior to the race. I had warmed up a few hours before, but not again right before.
And there's my entirely qualitative and confusing opinion on the matter.
Please feel free to swim a 50 BR AFAP with no warm-up. Then tell me how your groin feels afterward, if you are able to walk...
Exactly. I've never heard of a coach promoting absolutely no warm up for any race. Who are these coaches?
I've heard talks that no need to warm up at all before 50.
I will give a bit more details. You see I didn't compete for a very long time and started again about 1 year ago so I don't know my body well enough yet. This meet consists of 50s and 100 IM only. Last time I took part at the same meet I swam 50br, 100im and 4x50fr relay. I did warm up about 300m in relaxed pace. 3 or 4 build 50s and 4-5 12.5s afap from dive. After that 50br and 100m went terrible I felt sluggish after dive till the end of the events but 4x50 I swam immediately after 100IM unexpectedly went awesome. Suddenly I've got my 2nd breath. I understand that something actually was wrong with my warm up and this time I want to try different schema but not sure which one.
Who is talking that talk? And for masters?
The sluggishness you felt could be due to prior training, not warm up.
3-4 build 50s + 4-5 AFAP 12.5s off the blocks?! Way too much fast work for a 50 warm up IMO, but YMMV. I never go off the blocks during warm up to save the legs. 300 total also seems low. I usually do some slow swimming at the outset and between my mini fast efforts in warm up.
I warm up more for a 50 than for a 200.I want to be really revved and ready for a 50.I am working faster and pulling harder for a 50 than for longer distance.Being not warmed up is a great way to pull something.Also as I am faster really warmed up.
Absolutely. For me, you gotta get the engine revved before racing. I don't think you need a huge amount of warmup, but definitely some burst 12.5s to 25 distance about 15-20 minutes before race time.
