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'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'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.
