My last house was a little over a mile from a nice track. It was generally downhill from my place to the track.
I guess i was warming down and cooling up on days I did track work
My last house was a little over a mile from a nice track. It was generally downhill from my place to the track.
I guess i was warming down and cooling up on days I did track work
My clothes dryer says "cool-down" at the end of the cycle, even though it is still applying heat. Huh. Now I am wondering.
I use warmdown and cooldown interchangeably. Need to think if I call it a warmdown in winter and a cooldown in summer.
Usually it's a two mile jog after a workout or a race.
Is your body cool after that? No. It's still warm.
But your heart rate should be a bit down.
It's a warm down.
THe term is "chill down" if you are a sapio -sexual .
I say neither.....I just mutter the N word and jog in place.
redux wrote:
I think the kids these days are using "turnt" for this. Turnt Up and Turnt Down.
Fits most of the LetsRun crowd, as in, "I asked her for a date but I got Turnt Down."
On second thought, most of LR doesn't know what a date is.
Never mind.
Bobby M. wrote:
Well, the reality is, you were/are too stupid to simply ask why it is termed "warmdown"... congrats.
Warmdown is used due to the nature being similar as warmup... but, instead of preparing for activity, we are using slightly elevated HR through light and dynamic activity to produce a recovery/regeneration environment. To give another macro definition... expediting hormonal and nutrient shuttling.
I've always been aware of people using the two terms interchangeably, with those in the warmdown camp arguing that the term is semantically closer to the objective of the activity. But even understanding the reasons for the cool/warmdown, I still choose to call it a cooldown because warmdown just sounds stupid.
I run in the north where it is cold. In my running group (a bunch of former D1 and D2 guys now in our 30's and 40's) we often say "warm down." I never really thought about it before, but I think it is because after a tough workout we put on sweats and stuff to "stay warm on our cool down" - its just easier to say "warm down."
It's cooldown: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooldown
I use the 2 terms interchangeably, but warmdown makes more sense when you think about it. You're warm after a workout so you need warm down.
Cooldown doesn't make sense because if you're cooling down, then to make cool go down you're warming it up because then its not as cool.
I've always called it a warmdown to distinguish it from a cooldown in which you just sit down and do nothing.
My admonition to my athletes is to do a warmdown before it becomes a warmup (because you did nothing and cooled down).
The correct answer is unequivocally cool down. Saying warm down is incorrect. That isn't a thing. However, if someone says warm down who the hell cares. People say dumb stuff all the time and it's no skin off my ass.
uhhhh wrote:
The correct answer is unequivocally cool down. Saying warm down is incorrect. That isn't a thing. However, if someone says warm down who the hell cares. People say dumb stuff all the time and it's no skin off my ass.
I love these answers. "I'm right and you're wrong, but it's ok that you're wrong because sometimes people say things that are dumb. Dun worry a-bat-it"
In college, my coach, a Olympic Gold medalist at 5,000 meters (you should have figured out his identity by now) always called it "shakeups."
Shakedowns is correct.
I'm pretty sure Skechers had a shoe named that.
Pizzaboy35 wrote:
In college, my coach, a Olympic Gold medalist at 5,000 meters (you should have figured out his identity by now) always called it "shakeups."
In swimming it's common to say warmdown.
In running it's common to say cool down.
I'm a trisport athlete yearround(XC,swim,track) so I guess I'd know through experience.
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