I have been participating in Local, State and Nationals meets since 10 years ago but every time I get into a meet I am always worried about warming up too much time or just not enough and I also ask to myself how much effort to put on it.
As almost all the times during meets the pool is full for the warm ups, I do not feel that my different trainers I have had during this years had put too much attention to this issue, so I would like to ask people in this forum for your recomendations.
Alex
I remember very well doing the 5-4-3-2-1 at Texas. I still follow it to some degree to this day.
Ande mentions that you should jump back in the water if there's 90 minutes between warmup and first swim. I'd cut that down to an hour at the most. You don't feel it right away, but your muscles are starting to lose the adrenaline from warmup. The more adrenaline you lose, the longer you have to be in the water again before your race.
But again, every body is different. I know that I need longer warmup than most, as well as a longer warm down.
I remember very well doing the 5-4-3-2-1 at Texas. I still follow it to some degree to this day.
Ande mentions that you should jump back in the water if there's 90 minutes between warmup and first swim. I'd cut that down to an hour at the most. You don't feel it right away, but your muscles are starting to lose the adrenaline from warmup. The more adrenaline you lose, the longer you have to be in the water again before your race.
But again, every body is different. I know that I need longer warmup than most, as well as a longer warm down.
