I know this is a very newbie question, and there is ample info in swim books/sites about this, but I'd love to hear from REAL SWIMMERS like you, thank you very much.
What works for you?
Lately I've been doing a series of 200m to 25m swims, usually totalling 800m, as a warmup.
Example: 2x200m + 2x100m + 2x50m + 4x25m, starting very easy, ending at "fast" pace.
In the future I hope to incorporate drills into the warmup, but I don't have a clue yet. :)
Yeah that one is on the coach. Have to show respect to the rest of the competitors. At my last Sectionals (out at Jenks, OK), I warmed up each morning and afternoon and used all my equipment. Meet director came over and said "hey man, I am cool with you using your equipment right now because no one is really in the pool, but as soon as it gets crowded, can you pack up your gear?" It worked out fine each time because I was either done with the equipment portion of my warm-up or out of the water completely before things even got remotely crowded!
Jenks seems like it's an awesome pool. I swam at their old pool in high school that they had built originally in SCM and "converted" to SCY by building a wooden bulkhead/dock thing. So weird. Oklahoma used to have one championship meet quality pool in the aging OCCC Olympic Festival complex, now they have that Jenks pool and another very nice pool in Edmond. I'm hoping there's an SCY Sectionals there again before my aging curve starts going the wrong way :P
Regarding equipment at meets during warm-up:
To JP's experience, as the 2016 Oregon USMS Nationals Head Safety Marshall, I pretty much banned equipment from warm-ups for safety and clutter reasons. There are too many people in the pool and getting in/out. All that stuff creates tripping & slipping obstacles. And, if some gets wacked by a paddle during an arm recovery, it could be bad. I had a few jerks give me a hard time, but they all followed the rules and everyone was safe.
And, beyond that, paddles and fins can damage the touch pads if they are in place. At $1,000/pad, I would ban them if it was my pool.
Masters has the added degree of difficultly in a shared warmup/down pool of having such a vast variance in speeds. You go from Matt Grevers to 4 minute per hundred 90-year-olds. At least at Sectionals (and other large national-level USA-S meets) everyone is at a minimum standard. I would not want to make that more difficult to navigate with paddles and fins flying around.
Yeah that one is on the coach. Have to show respect to the rest of the competitors. At my last Sectionals (out at Jenks, OK), I warmed up each morning and afternoon and used all my equipment. Meet director came over and said "hey man, I am cool with you using your equipment right now because no one is really in the pool, but as soon as it gets crowded, can you pack up your gear?" It worked out fine each time because I was either done with the equipment portion of my warm-up or out of the water completely before things even got remotely crowded!
Jenks seems like it's an awesome pool. I swam at their old pool in high school that they had built originally in SCM and "converted" to SCY by building a wooden bulkhead/dock thing. So weird. Oklahoma used to have one championship meet quality pool in the aging OCCC Olympic Festival complex, now they have that Jenks pool and another very nice pool in Edmond. I'm hoping there's an SCY Sectionals there again before my aging curve starts going the wrong way :P
Regarding equipment at meets during warm-up:
To JP's experience, as the 2016 Oregon USMS Nationals Head Safety Marshall, I pretty much banned equipment from warm-ups for safety and clutter reasons. There are too many people in the pool and getting in/out. All that stuff creates tripping & slipping obstacles. And, if some gets wacked by a paddle during an arm recovery, it could be bad. I had a few jerks give me a hard time, but they all followed the rules and everyone was safe.
And, beyond that, paddles and fins can damage the touch pads if they are in place. At $1,000/pad, I would ban them if it was my pool.
Masters has the added degree of difficultly in a shared warmup/down pool of having such a vast variance in speeds. You go from Matt Grevers to 4 minute per hundred 90-year-olds. At least at Sectionals (and other large national-level USA-S meets) everyone is at a minimum standard. I would not want to make that more difficult to navigate with paddles and fins flying around.
