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?
At some meets you will see swimmers queuing up in lanes to practice turns. We never do this. During one week's training you will have done over 1,000 turns - and yet swimmers still feel the need to run through their turns during the warm-up!
I have a hard time judging where I am in in relationship to the wall and the T on the bottom of the pool when swimming in a deep water pool such as a diving well. I generally miss (badly!) at least one turn in a 200 free at meets in these sorts of pools. While I might have had hundreds of thousands (!) of turns during the previous week in the pool where I practice it's not quite the same as a turn in a 14 ft deep diving well.
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At some meets you will see swimmers queuing up in lanes to practice turns. We never do this. During one week's training you will have done over 1,000 turns - and yet swimmers still feel the need to run through their turns during the warm-up!
I have a hard time judging where I am in in relationship to the wall and the T on the bottom of the pool when swimming in a deep water pool such as a diving well. I generally miss (badly!) at least one turn in a 200 free at meets in these sorts of pools. While I might have had hundreds of thousands (!) of turns during the previous week in the pool where I practice it's not quite the same as a turn in a 14 ft deep diving well.
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