Cool-downs - are they necessary? | EP#36

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What are the real benefits and proclaimed benefits (aka myths) of cool-downs? Should you do cool-downs, and if yes, how should you do it in your triathlon training? IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: -The actual benefit of cooldowns: reducing risk of post-exercise dizziness and fainting -Myths about cool-downs - no, they DON'T enhance recovery or improve performance in later workouts -Why it might be a good idea to do cool-downs anyway - but from a training adaptation standpoint, not a recovery or performance standpoint -My personal recommendations regarding cool-downs LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	That Traathlon Show, episode 36.
0:06.1	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:18.8	Welcome back to That triathlon show.
0:21.7	The podcast presented by ScientificTrafflon.com.
0:25.2	As always, I'm your host, Michael.
0:28.0	And on today's episode, as a continuation of last episode on the warmups, we are
0:33.9	naturally going to talk about cool downs today.
0:36.7	And are they really necessary?
0:38.7	If so, why?
0:40.4	And how should you do them?
0:41.8	Just a quick side note before that, you're very lucky to be hearing this episode because I just got back in from a brick workout where on the run I swallowed a fly and I was coughing like crazy and it felt like I would suffocate but I made it back
0:56.4	alive if just and you are hearing this episode so all is good anyway that's a bit of a light start
1:04.2	to this episode because there is some technical stuff but the takeaways are pretty clear and
1:09.0	and easy to understand.
1:17.2	And actually, the question that I mentioned, should you do cool downs, the answer is you can,
1:19.7	but they're probably not that useful, actually.
1:22.8	You would be better off prolonging the warmup or the main set.
1:27.7	So I had some idea of this when I started researching this topic to prepare for this episode, but I wasn't clear on to what extent the research really indicates that cool downs or does not
1:33.2	indicate that cool downs are of much use at all. So it was again a case of me learning something
1:40.0	new or learning more about it as I prepare for a podcast episode. So that was a pretty cool thing
1:45.3	for me and this is definitely something that the athletes that I coach, if you listen to this,
1:49.9	you will in the future see less and less cool downs in your workouts because it's all about
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