Hey, when you run, you stretch, warm up, stretch, jog, slow run...etc.
What do you folks do when you swim to warm up? or do you? or just slow swim to warm up?? Not that I'm proficient enough yet to worry bout it, but I thought about it when I was stretching to run this morning.
Thanks,
Mark
It always takes me a long time to warmup. I always stretch a lot before getting in, mostly to keep my shoulders loose and pain-free. In the water, warmup for me is slower swimming, trying to stretch out my stroke as much as possible. I usually like to do a continuous 4-500, and then do a bunch of shorter swims with higher rest... such as 50's with a good pause between each to fully catch my breath, get my heart rate back down, etc. These are not fast -- just long and smooth.
Warmup is different for each person. Best thing -- try a bunch of different combinations, and see what works best for you.
-Rick
My coach has a very standard warmup sequence for me:
300 free
100 kick
200 pull w/buoy
100 stroke drill
Then on most days I do 4x50 on 1:30 swum as accelerations on the 1st 25, 2nd 25 is easy. The accelerations are swum from slow to near sprint speed which gets the body fully prepared to swim faster for the main sets.
Originally posted by hofffam
My coach has a very standard warmup sequence for me:
300 free
100 kick
200 pull w/buoy
100 stroke drill
Then on most days I do 4x50 on 1:30 swum as accelerations on the 1st 25, 2nd 25 is easy. The accelerations are swum from slow to near sprint speed which gets the body fully prepared to swim faster for the main sets. That is above standard for most coaches.
