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What do you do as a Warm-Up (WU) and Cool-Down (CD) before and after your workouts and races?

Perhaps some easy running and maybe a few short sprints to get the kinks out the legs pre-race or pre-workout. Then a 1-2km easy run, if that, as a cool-down after all the hard work has been done.

But is this the right thing to do? Is this too much? Or not enough?

Enter Peter Thompson. A legendary figure in Track & Field who has coached athletes to world record performances for over 40 years. His systematic and empirical approach to warm-up and cool-down prescription has lead to interesting and perhaps counter-intuitive suggestions for WU and CD

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