SnappingT wrote:
In my opinion, your warm up is about spot on to a little lean. And probably on the lean side for a sprint focus. Triathletes tend to think that it is all about the bottom line yardage and how big they can get that number of yards on their training peaks account. So warm up is just a waste of time. What is more important is getting in quality sets when you have limited amount of time in the pool. You want to be as warmed up as possible and ready to go from the first 25 of the main set. You don't want to skip warm up to spend the first 1/3 of the main set warming up all for a bigger yardage number at the end of your workout. That's a waste of valuable training time.
Just for the heck of it I tried what I felt was a too long warm up yesterday. So what had been just over 1000ish I took to 1650 just for giggles. Total for the day was 3100 excluding cool down. Felt fantastic and for the lack of swimming I have had the past 3 months my main set went awesome and I felt great right from the first interval. Will try again a few more times to see if this is my new modus operandi. Thanks for the idea that it might have even been a little lean b/c for years I have been thinking to myself 'why does it take me so long to get my engine warm I gotta stop this and get on to the main set.'. When in fact I should have kept on warming up!