At what point do you stop wearing warmups?

I know lots of people who wear warmups no matter how hot it is before their races. This seems to have the obvious flaw of increasing your water loss through sweating more. I was a nationally ranked high school runner and ran for a national championship D1 program for college, and we just took off our warmups whenever we felt... warm, without any set rule. Sometimes we never put them on at all.

Not very scientific, but that's my two cents.

When she's on the bed with her bra off.

i don't understand wearing them no matter how hot it is! that just doesn't make sense... why would your teammates overheat themselves?

anyway, i would wear them depending on temperature, not when you think you should be wearing them according to some set routine.

I agree with previous posts - wear them only if you need to during the hot weather. When it's hot, I never warm-up in full warm-up gear, simply because you can get sufficiently warmed up in shorts and a singlet. I like to keep a light sweat going right up to the starting line. When the weather gets a little cooler, I tend to put my warm-up back on to keep my temperature up if necessary.

You didn't get your copy of "The official guide to wearing warm up's"? It is all detailed in there, including proper thread count, colors, zippers vs. buttons, everything. It should be in your hands at all times man!

It is always interesting to see the Kenyans and many of the Japanese in Boulder wearing full warmups even mid-day during the summer. The Kenyan guys usually run in the morning and you see them wearing warmups, but the Japanese men and women seem to wear them morning, noon and night, unless they are running hard. The Japanese often run easy or walk mid-day and it is quite common to see them out on any given day during the mid-day heat in Boulder in full warmups. Years ago I recall seeing Delialah Asiago out for a training run in black warmups at ~10:00 in the morning on a really hot, hot day. Ugh!

They may be intentionally doing that for heat acclimation purposes for training... Interesting idea for expanding plasma volume for competition in any condition, not just the heat.

But if somebody does not do that in training, I wouldn't recommend it on race day.

Neither Kenyans nor Japanese sweat like us caucasians or west africans. If they lost as much water as us white folk, they too would not wear full warm-ups on runs all the time.

Elite distance runners like Adam Gaucher wear sauna suits for easy runs in order to get used to humidity and heat like WC in Osaka. This is recommended by his coach Alberto Sauzer at the Boulder Nike training camp.

Try it for quick weight /water loss only!