Correct terminology?

Woddle

Don't think it matters much but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down.

gerard65

Warm up, warm down. You don't cool up, cool down.:D

RacoonQueen

I use warm down 99.9% of the time. Thus, since I use it, then warm down is the correct term.

Krusty_Clown

Let's get to the real issue here:
Threadmill <---- Wrong
Treadmill

misty floyd

Warm down

This is a good Tread

gerard65

RacoonQueen wrote: »

I use warm down 99.9% of the time. Thus, since I use it, then warm down is the correct term.

The Queen has spoken. From this day onwards anyone using the term 'c**l down' will be considered a 'jogger':P

donothoponpop

Warm down

Woddle wrote: »

Don't think it matters much but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down.

"'I' don't think it matters much<comma> but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down."

menoscemo

Woddle wrote: »

Don't think it matters much but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down.

Since you love to stand round yakking for half an hour after a workout, you can call it a warm up.

gerard65

donothoponpop wrote: »

"'I' don't think it matters much<comma> but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down."

Wha?

donothoponpop

Warm down

gerard65 wrote: »

Wha?

OK, I was being very pedantic.

To answer the question, "warm up" is correct (stick a thermometer in your gob to find out). Then run the race in a blaze of glory. Then, since there is an equivalence between mechanical work and heat, a slow jog would be correctly described as a "cool down".

After that, the grim and chilling realization that all motion is heading towards entropy, universal heat death is a certainty, and every step is one closer to a cold and lonely godless universe, in the ultimate cool down of being.

Oryx

I run. I get hotter. I stop running. I get less hot. I don't call it anything.

Woddle

Warm down

donothoponpop wrote: »

"'I' don't think it matters much<comma> but when I was younger I always got corrected when I called a cool down a warm down."

Took me about five minutes to get this, my range of emotion went as follows
:mad::D

Gandalph

Warm down

I never say anythin other than "cumin for a lap?"

Mr Slow

Gandalph wrote: »

I never say anythin other than "cumin for a lap?"

Does that apply to running?

Bally8

Warm down

Warm down = oxymoron. Yes? No?

Hanley

misty floyd wrote: »

This is a good Tread

Thread carefully... this coudl get ugly.

TFBubendorfer

Warm down

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Let's get to the real issue here:
Threadmill <---- Wrong
Treadmill

Dreadmill is still the most descriptive one, even if it's wrong, strictly speaking.

ecoli

Gonna hi jack this thread. Given that very few sprinters/MD runners here need to get away from the following misconception

Intervals - yes
Speedwork - NO!!!!!

Rant over. As you were:D

Gandalph

Warm down

ecoli wrote: »

Gonna hi jack this thread. Given that very few sprinters/MD runners here need to get away from the following misconception

Intervals - yes
Speedwork - NO!!!!!

Rant over. As you were:D

what?! do u not mean the misconception of fartlek and intervals?

ecoli

Gandalph wrote: »

what?! do u not mean the misconception of fartlek and intervals?

No the difference between pure speed sessions and intervals. 10x400m or whatever session you wanna insert their is not a speed session

Gandalph

Warm down

jaysus wud hate to meet the guys that think 10x400 is a speed session, it wudn even come under my category of speed endurance!

ecoli

Gandalph wrote: »

jaysus wud hate to meet the guys that think 10x400 is a speed session, it wudn even come under my category of speed endurance!

Thats the point many people think intervals/speedwork are different names for the same thing

dna_leri

Warm down

ecoli wrote: »

Thats the point many people think intervals/speedwork are different names for the same thing

These "many people" include top endurance coaches such as Greg McMillan who talks about:

Speed Workouts

Aerobic Capacity Intervals
Here's where we get to the fast stuff. These workouts are what most of us think of as "speedwork". They last between 400m and 2000m and are run between 3K and 8K race pace. The goal here is to spend time at your maximum aerobic capacity (or VO2max).

He does go on to talk about "sprint workouts" but even in his famous calculator his "speed workouts" are interval times. If even he gets this "wrong" its not surprising that most of the rest of us do too.

In fact "intervals" are not really the fast running bit at all - the intervals are supposed to be the recovery bit in between the fast reps.

Then you have someone like Daniels who confuses us further by having "interval pace" and "rep(etition) pace".

ecoli

dna_leri wrote: »

These "many people" include top endurance coaches such as Greg McMillan who talks about:


He does go on to talk about "sprint workouts" but even in his famous calculator his "speed workouts" are interval times. If even he gets this "wrong" its not surprising that most of the rest of us do too.

In fact "intervals" are not really the fast running bit at all - the intervals are supposed to be the recovery bit in between the fast reps.

Then you have someone like Daniels who confuses us further by having "interval pace" and "rep(etition) pace".

I think the McMillan puts this term in inverted comma's for exactly the reason I pointed out that many of the general public refer to these as speedwork and is more attempting to use generally accepted terms to appeal to the general target market of his training plans (he is trying to sell a product after all so using language people use rather that terms which might confuse his target market by overcomplicating his explanations)

TheRoadRunner

Fartlick

Pherekydes

Warm down

gerard65 wrote: »

Warm up, warm down. You don't cool up, cool down.:D

If you don't cool up, how do you warm down?

Warm up, cool down. Seriously, people.

And middle-distance and distance runners never do speed work.