Training Tuesday: How We Think About “Warming Up”

The Running Public

Kirk Dewindt & Brakken Kraker

Sports:running, Running, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness

5 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off a series of Training Tuesday episodes explaining our rationale behind the way we think about and execute various pieces of our training. Today: the Pre-Race Warm Up. Most people do far too little. Some people do way too much. Either way, we’re not telling just telling you HOW to warm up, we’re telling the REASON we believe you should warm up a certain way.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the running public with Brack and Crocker and Kirk DeWint.
0:12.4	It's Tuesday, folks, and you know what that means, Training Tuesday.
0:15.7	We are going to take every rabbit hole, follow tangents, use useless metaphors, get lost in the weeds.
0:22.4	This is Training Tuesday.
0:32.9	When you're ready to take your training or racing to the next level, go to the running public.com.
0:38.5	We have both monthly subscription training plans, $1999 a month, and Bracken and I both offer one-on-one customized coaching.
0:47.2	Again, go to the running public.com and check out our offerings.
0:51.2	You all situated?
0:52.4	I think so. I still have sweaty underwear on. Oh, we, I had this last time.
0:58.9	Our last episode we recorded, I had come straight in from outside. And now you have.
1:05.7	That's right. You did. Yeah. Yes. I, yes, here I am. I'm rarely late for these recordings. If anything, if anybody's late, it would be you barely. But I was like three minutes, three or four minutes late today because I was cutting it close. I haven't cut my cool down a mile short. Now, still late. What'd you have today?
1:26.5	12 by a thousand on the track.
1:30.6	It's some volume in that session.
1:33.3	Trying to test out some shoes to see what I may prefer on the track for upcoming races.
1:41.0	Trying to debate if spikes are needed, necessary, helpful, or if I should stick to some
1:46.8	sort of, you know, lighter road racing flat. So I did some experimenting today with three
1:52.4	shoe changes, which is very brackenesque. This I love. And I have very specific thoughts on this.
1:59.2	And since we have a shorter episode today, I'm actually thinking this is a good teaching point to talk about right now.
2:06.1	Oh, okay.
2:07.2	So you're looking at track races coming up, specifically the 5K distance, correct?
2:13.5	As of now, that is the plan, yes.
2:15.8	And that is for an adult, that is kind of the crossover point for many adults.
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