- Morning, trainiacs.
Today we're gonna talk
about a good smattering of things
that you should not be doing before a swim workout.
I haven't done them, so I'm gonna go do a swim workout
right now.
(upbeat instrumental music)
It's a casual, 1,650 meter swim, according to the watch,
actually 1,600, thanks Garmin.
Recover, technique, just had a down day, that's all.
Now the first thing that you don't want to be doing
before coming to the pool really has nothing to do
with having a good set.
It's about being a good swim lane partner
and that is don't go slamming a bucket of coffee
and then not brush your teeth before.
Hi.
Your face is like face-to-face,
you're eye level with everyone.
You can't get away from people's coffee breath sometimes,
not that I'm mentioning any names.
But you know Dewey likes coffee in our group.
You know.
Now very much related to that is what you have for breakfast
the morning before you get out and go for a swim.
Kind of think of it like doing a triathlon.
Every morning workout shouldn't necessarily be carb loaded
to the max within an hour of your workout,
maybe for the super long or super intense workouts,
but for the most part, you can get away
with a very light carb based breakfast.
Couple of pieces of toast.
I like having like more
of a Bulletproof vegan coffee.
And just like going into a race, you don't want to have
like just a mound of food that you've got
to work your way through.
So that's gonna then lead to the next.
Now the next thing that you don't want to do
before a swim happens in here.
You don't want to not go to the bathroom before swimming.
So think of it this way, in the pool, we want to focus
on a nice, tight core, sucking that belly button
up to our spine, staying nice and long,
and if you have a stomach full of pee and poop,
it's gonna be fairly uncomfortable
because you've got that big lump in your stomach.
So make sure you go to the bathroom.
And I'm not gonna shoot any B roll of going in there.
I like poop jokes.
I'm not a monster.
And then once you do finally strut up to the pool deck,
this is kind of counterintuitive,
but it goes in line with what I recommend for biking
and running.
You don't want to be doing a bunch of static stretching
on the pool deck.
Static stretching, bringing your muscles to their limits,
is like stretching a rubber band
to the point that it gets white
and it then snaps back and it becomes
a little bit more brittle,
so you end up making yourself more susceptible
to injury.
You want to warm up with more dynamic movements
and then a very light swim of four to 800 meters
in the pool.
No static stretching, no.
And the final thing you don't want to do before a swim
relates to kind of how you structure your training.
You want to come into a swim with really light legs
so that it feels easy to control them
and get those legs to float up to the surface.
So if you're doing a big legstravaganza workout
on the weights in the morning,
you're going to have heavy legs later at night.
If you're doing a brick workout
where you got smashed yourself on a bike before the swim
and then you go for a swim,
you're going to have heavy legs in the swim.
So you might just want to flip that
and have a nice, easy swim in the morning
and then your heavy stuff later on.
Easy peasy, right?
So there you go, trainiacs.
Those are things that you do not want
to do to have a good swim.
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