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.
Stupid question: are your warmups with rest? I am going for my 500-600 without stopping, doing flip turns at both ends when I can, sometimes pausing just enough to turn myself around without the flip.
During my warmup my only pauses tend to be to pop on/of the zoomers or grab the pull buoy. I generally avoid flip turns early in he warmup (I find my back needs to ease into this stuff as I get older as well), but generally do by the end.
One other thing worth considering. What is the next set after warmup? I like a transition set (e.g. 6X75 on 1:20-1:30 at an aerobic pace, maybe a bit of kicking as well). Anything involving fly does not qualify in my mind as "transition". It simply puts too much load on my shoulder too early in the practice. I generally fall back to one-warm fly if the coach tosses in some IM work during what I consider to be the "transition" set.
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Stupid question: are your warmups with rest? I am going for my 500-600 without stopping, doing flip turns at both ends when I can, sometimes pausing just enough to turn myself around without the flip.
During my warmup my only pauses tend to be to pop on/of the zoomers or grab the pull buoy. I generally avoid flip turns early in he warmup (I find my back needs to ease into this stuff as I get older as well), but generally do by the end.
One other thing worth considering. What is the next set after warmup? I like a transition set (e.g. 6X75 on 1:20-1:30 at an aerobic pace, maybe a bit of kicking as well). Anything involving fly does not qualify in my mind as "transition". It simply puts too much load on my shoulder too early in the practice. I generally fall back to one-warm fly if the coach tosses in some IM work during what I consider to be the "transition" set.
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