I'm just curious if people vary what they do in a meet warm up vs. a regular warm up. Something I never got the proper hang of during my fastest swimming days was 1) what MY best taper was and 2) what MY best meet warm up was. It was always do as I was told. I always suspected my tapers were too short (based on anecdotal evidence of feeling a week after championships like I was indestructible and could have shattered my times if the meet was that day) and never had a clue if my meet warm ups were sufficient, as we were typically left to our own devices to splash around.
Figuring that people's workout warm ups will roughly reflect the events they are training for, do you do the same warm up at a meet as you do in practice? How do you decide if your meet warm up is working for you?
Ok I have done this two different ways. One from being a age group coach and the other from my masters meets. In both instances I try to do the same, but the master's vary some.
As a coach I standardized the warm up based on ability. For meets I do the same warm up as practice and then do some 50s of the strokes they are swimming, such as 50 back to make sure the counts are ok with the flags, *** to make sure they feel comfortable with the wall and then a few 25 sprints to get a feel of the blocks. The thoughts here are to get use to the pool.
For masters it's a little different. My coaches don't really have a standard warm up. They change it every practice, but when i go on taper, I do a specific warm up each practice. I use that warm up for meets. The nice thing is that warm up has each stroke in it so I can do the same things that I have my kids do in their warm ups.
Ok I have done this two different ways. One from being a age group coach and the other from my masters meets. In both instances I try to do the same, but the master's vary some.
As a coach I standardized the warm up based on ability. For meets I do the same warm up as practice and then do some 50s of the strokes they are swimming, such as 50 back to make sure the counts are ok with the flags, *** to make sure they feel comfortable with the wall and then a few 25 sprints to get a feel of the blocks. The thoughts here are to get use to the pool.
For masters it's a little different. My coaches don't really have a standard warm up. They change it every practice, but when i go on taper, I do a specific warm up each practice. I use that warm up for meets. The nice thing is that warm up has each stroke in it so I can do the same things that I have my kids do in their warm ups.
