This Saturday is the first meet of the season and I am excited and anxious to start racing again. My main problem with swim meets is warm ups. I have a terrible time with warming up, it is difficult for me to concentrate when so many other people around are doing completely different things plus the lanes are always to crowded to get any quality time in. My question then is does anyone have any good tips or workouts for warming up at a meet? What do you do before a meet. I haven't seemed to have gotten this part down yet and for me warm ups are crucial to my speed and it takes me awhile to get warmed up. Any advice is appreciated thank you.
By the way is anyone swimming in Fresno this Saturday November 7th?
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We run through our stretching routine as a group on poolside before I allow the swimmers to warm-up. .
Yes
The backstrokers check out the ceiling, and the surroundings. The breaststrokers and butterfiers, check out the ends of the pool. Is there a trough that you can grab or is it a flat timing pad? .
Yes
My swimmers always go in late. They usually have lots of room to swim when the early 'warm-uppers' have left the pool.......and yet swimmers still feel the need to run through their turns during the warm-up!.
Yes
They finish the warm-up with only two starts from the blocks in the sprint lane. This involves a fast start, and fast breakout for just 15 metres, then a very slow paddle to the end of the pool.
and Yes.
Personally I never swim more than 400m in a warm up. 1200m like Rykno??? that's nearly a training session for me!
We run through our stretching routine as a group on poolside before I allow the swimmers to warm-up. .
Yes
The backstrokers check out the ceiling, and the surroundings. The breaststrokers and butterfiers, check out the ends of the pool. Is there a trough that you can grab or is it a flat timing pad? .
Yes
My swimmers always go in late. They usually have lots of room to swim when the early 'warm-uppers' have left the pool.......and yet swimmers still feel the need to run through their turns during the warm-up!.
Yes
They finish the warm-up with only two starts from the blocks in the sprint lane. This involves a fast start, and fast breakout for just 15 metres, then a very slow paddle to the end of the pool.
and Yes.
Personally I never swim more than 400m in a warm up. 1200m like Rykno??? that's nearly a training session for me!
