Excessive Warming Up?

system · February 8, 2010, 7:35pm

So it seems to me that the less I warm up the faster I run my 55m. And after a thorough warm up, I saw my time get slower from trial to finals, even with a better start in the finals. Here’s what I do for my general warm up:

-Put on underarmour, t-shirt, basketball shorts, sweatshirt and sweatpants on over jersey
-4 min jog
-stretch checks
-sprinter drills ~10m each (a skips, powerful a skips, b skips, b skips every third, straight leg bounds, powerful straight leg bounds, carioca both ways, hi skips)
-build up #1, ~75% effort
-build up #2 ~85% effort
-build up #3 at full effort while relaxed
-ditch the sweats
-build up to full speed (in flats now)
-two three point starts
-blast out
-race

i was wondering if anyone had any input on this, because i don’t think i have a ridiculous amount of warming up, but my time is better by a whole tenth or two in meets that i have warmed up less for. maybe this could be a result of having a weak CNS. would that make sense? and if so, what would anyone recommend to change. obviously i should do whatever leads to the fastest times, but maybe should i cut out the “powerful” sprinter drills, and some of the runs before my race and just try to break a sweat then go? muscularly i can definitely handle this warm up, so i cant really figure out why my times seem to slow down from doing a warm up like it…

That warm-up isn’t long at all. How do you know your start was better? Do you have video or splits? Maybe everyone else had a worse start. Your warm-up looks pretty good actually.