Stretching before swimming

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I would be interested to know just how much stretching and other exercise people do before they start their training sessions.:D
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  • Former Member
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    All the sretchers I know have sore shoulders, they over do it. I have never stretched, never will. Gareth did your coach in Canada have you do duck walks around the pool before you swam. That is what some of those Canadian coaches did. Thank goodness I never listened to them. Bip that is really true but it is not recent the guy I knew who did a study at U of Maryland in 1953 and that was his findings longer warmup swims, better still no stretching at all.
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    All the sretchers I know have sore shoulders, they over do it. I have never stretched, never will. Gareth did your coach in Canada have you do duck walks around the pool before you swam. That is what some of those Canadian coaches did. Thank goodness I never listened to them. Bip that is really true but it is not recent the guy I knew who did a study at U of Maryland in 1953 and that was his findings longer warmup swims, better still no stretching at all.
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