Swim warm ups & cool downs
rush1884
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Ok so I was at the pool this morning and started my swim session with a typical 250m warm up, did 500m swim drills, 1000m main set, and a 250m cool down.
My swim drills and main set are always very enjoyable and focused as I have specific things I want to work on or a specific pace. However my warm ups and cool downs are my most hated part of any session. What I tend to do for my warm up is a continous 250m swim that gradually increases in tempo and for my cool down I intersperse one length of crawl with a length of breaststroke. I always find these boring and fairly pointless apart from adding a little bit of light intensity volume to my sessions.
Has anyone got any good warm up/cool downs that they use and actually enjoy doing? Or is everyone like me just plodding through the necessities of the WU & CD.
Oh and I can only swim crawl and breaststroke so I lack variation there.
My swim drills and main set are always very enjoyable and focused as I have specific things I want to work on or a specific pace. However my warm ups and cool downs are my most hated part of any session. What I tend to do for my warm up is a continous 250m swim that gradually increases in tempo and for my cool down I intersperse one length of crawl with a length of breaststroke. I always find these boring and fairly pointless apart from adding a little bit of light intensity volume to my sessions.
Has anyone got any good warm up/cool downs that they use and actually enjoy doing? Or is everyone like me just plodding through the necessities of the WU & CD.
Oh and I can only swim crawl and breaststroke so I lack variation there.
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A typical w/up may look like (in my gym's 20m pool)
100m f/c easy
2 x (20m f/c + 20m br + 20m f/c + 20m bs + 20m f/c).
I concentrate on form for the f/c, increasing the pace for the f/c throughout.
C/D is a bit of a buggers muddle... I'll either do something similar to the w/up but all "easy", or I'll do 100M then 60m then 40m f/c ...
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