Every single time I practice in the pool I start off in a weird way - as if my muscles are asleep or something(I feels like I do not move what my potential allows me) and only some time throught he work-out it clicks and I start swimming faster , easier and smoother.That probably is nothing strange, 'cause obviously muscles need some warm-p first.
That brings me to the following question: at meets(any level - up to Olympics) do swimmers prefer to warm up somehow(maybe go for a short swim) and is that even possible to do, i.e. are there usually certain areas for that?
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Just a side note as food for thought...
After Phelps finished his Olympic competition, my head coach sat with our team thinking about how much swimming Phelps actually during the Olympics. Now, this is just an estimate, but if you factor in all of Phelps races, and the warm-up could very well have done before each race, and the warm-down afterwards, it's possible he swam as much as 80,000 meters the week of the Olympics! For most people, that would be a killer week of swimming, and if my head coach's estimates were even near right, Phelps did it in his biggest week of competition!
Ryan
www.ICoachSwimming.com
www.SwimNStyle.com
Just a side note as food for thought...
After Phelps finished his Olympic competition, my head coach sat with our team thinking about how much swimming Phelps actually during the Olympics. Now, this is just an estimate, but if you factor in all of Phelps races, and the warm-up could very well have done before each race, and the warm-down afterwards, it's possible he swam as much as 80,000 meters the week of the Olympics! For most people, that would be a killer week of swimming, and if my head coach's estimates were even near right, Phelps did it in his biggest week of competition!
Ryan
www.ICoachSwimming.com
www.SwimNStyle.com
