Stupid question.. But what is a good pace for warm up? I get some slight twinges of shoulder and elbow pain lately, I'm young and don't do much with the shoulders, get 1-2 days of rest (at least) a week from swimming... But when warming up, I end up getting that "good burn" after just a few hundred yards and almost feel my shoulders tiring. I am probably warming up with 500/600 yds at a 1:45/100 pace. Is this too fast? Too Slow?
I find it hard to slow myself down if that makes any sense.. I am no speed demon but I seem to be set for one speed unless sprinting.
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Are you warming up with all strokes?
When I warm up I feel some "things" and it takes a while to work that out. Maybe 600-800 yds of back/***/free. The pace should build slowly. After that I may pick it up for a short 600 yd set to be sure everything is "working", then ready to go.
I haven't been warming up with all strokes. Good point. I normally just do the freestyle (although sometimes I may take a "break" and flip over to my back for a few strokes in the middle of a length and give myself some cheat breaths while still moving but 95% of it is freestyle..)
In fact 90% of my hour in the pool each morning is free, maybe that's why it sometimes hurts to raise my right arm laterally at the shoulder ;)
I am trying to correct my *** kick and don't want to start doing the breaststroke much until I stop doing the scissor kick and start doing the whip kick right... Can't really do the fly yet so I do some backstroke and a fair amount of butteryfly kicks (or attempts at butterfly kicks maybe)
Are you warming up with all strokes?
When I warm up I feel some "things" and it takes a while to work that out. Maybe 600-800 yds of back/***/free. The pace should build slowly. After that I may pick it up for a short 600 yd set to be sure everything is "working", then ready to go.
I haven't been warming up with all strokes. Good point. I normally just do the freestyle (although sometimes I may take a "break" and flip over to my back for a few strokes in the middle of a length and give myself some cheat breaths while still moving but 95% of it is freestyle..)
In fact 90% of my hour in the pool each morning is free, maybe that's why it sometimes hurts to raise my right arm laterally at the shoulder ;)
I am trying to correct my *** kick and don't want to start doing the breaststroke much until I stop doing the scissor kick and start doing the whip kick right... Can't really do the fly yet so I do some backstroke and a fair amount of butteryfly kicks (or attempts at butterfly kicks maybe)
