Let’s see what you should do during those few minutes before training!
Your training session begins at 8 p.m. but you are already at the poolside by 7.45 and you do not know what to do for the next few minutes. Instead of just sitting or looking around, why do not you start to get your body ready for training?! You might think: “Ah well, the first part will be a warmup anyway”. That is very true, but why do not you view these few minutes as a pre-warmup and so, today, we will see why and how this time can be useful.
It is easy to explain “why”. The most useful thing about a pre-warmup is that it allows you to get in the water and feel good right away, without perhaps spending the first few minutes swimming with tiny twinges and pains all over your body. It will certainly help prevent injuries. But there are also other benefits deriving from performing a few exercises, like, for example, improving the flexibility of your muscles and joints.
So let’s move onto “how”. For either work or study reasons, perhaps you have spent most of the day sitting down, which means your joints and muscles are particularly stiff and “switched off”. So the “how” should include exercises that activate and loosen up all your muscles and joints. That…
