When calculating your total training time do you count your warm-up and cool-down time? Example: 15 min warm-up/ 30min main workout/ 15 min cooldown Would you count that as a 60 minute workout?
Hell, yes!
If the warm-up and cool down are, say, part of the same activity, then yes. If I’m warming up with calesthenics or stretching, then no.
I need a good 1500 yds before I am warmed up to swim fast… and that’s 22 min or so… yes that counts as yardage and training time. Cooldown too (though not as long).
if you run a 2mi warmup… you have run two miles… why not count it?
I forget, do we train to get faster, or do we train to tell people how many hours we train? In that case I’m still warming up and my workout is calling you out on a big who gives a shit how long we train.
To reel this in away from a personal attack, I think many of us are guilty of this (me included) - just strikes me on a bad Friday of work when my boss logs 40 hours AT work, but probably only does 4. I kicked his ass by working for at least 20 of 50; he still got paid more 
TC
You’ve reminded me of a Q I’ve been meaning to ask, to the ‘community’ in general, I don’t necessarily mean to put you on the spot. I assume we are all familiar with the first few (hundred in some cases) steps that it takes to get our land legs back on our way to t1. I presume this is a result of blood pressure & other differences from the cumulative changes of putting head above heart, etc. A buddy of mine a while ago claim that since he rarely does cool downs, in essence, he’s trained himself to get used to that feeling and no longer experiences the dizzies. Is there any validity to this line of thought? I’ve skipped cooling down to finish my mainset and still make it to work meetings. (Not only was I still sweating during the meetings, but I damn near crack my skull on the shower room floor trying to wash the bottoms of my feet)
Added note, if one can train them self to get used to being dizzy, should I just poor another glass of wine?
Happy Fridays!
It was just a simple question. I know that as I get older I need a much longer warm-up before I can do any faster, more intense training and that by doing a proper cool-down that I recover much easier from my workouts. I really couldn’t care less how many hours someone trains. I try and get by with the least amount of time and still enjoy a decent amount of performance. With little kids at home that’s my priority.
When calculating your total training time do you count your warm-up and cool-down time? Example: 15 min warm-up/ 30min main workout/ 15 min cooldown Would you count that as a 60 minute workout?
first of all, i would never do a 15 minute cool down; but if i did, hell yes it would count every second of the workout regardless!
TC
You’ve reminded me of a Q I’ve been meaning to ask, to the ‘community’ in general, I don’t necessarily mean to put you on the spot. I assume we are all familiar with the first few (hundred in some cases) steps that it takes to get our land legs back on our way to t1. I presume this is a result of blood pressure & other differences from the cumulative changes of putting head above heart, etc. A buddy of mine a while ago claim that since he rarely does cool downs, in essence, he’s trained himself to get used to that feeling and no longer experiences the dizzies. Is there any validity to this line of thought? I’ve skipped cooling down to finish my mainset and still make it to work meetings. (Not only was I still sweating during the meetings, but I damn near crack my skull on the shower room floor trying to wash the bottoms of my feet)
Added note, if one can train them self to get used to being dizzy, should I just poor another glass of wine?
I don’t think I’ve ever felt dizzy running out of the water to T1 so I don’t know if I can answer the question… the feeling for me is more the shock of being out of my natural habitat and on dry land!!! If you do get dizzy, yes it’d be that horizontal to vertical transition.
As far as your friend is concerned, whether you cool down after your main set or not then you are still going from horizontal to vertical when you get out of the water. So I don’t think it matters… but cooldowns are kinda important. I too have skipped a cooldown to finish a set and get to class on time 
and when I do that my arms and shoulders are usually really tight/achy.
do your cooldowns. If you want to practice that run to T1, then do it when you’ve been OW swimming?