What To Do For Your Warm-Up

What to do for your warm-up

Warming up is a crucial component of your exercise routine. We all know we have to do it, but we don’t always know what to do. Do I walk on the treadmill for 5 minutes? Do I skip the rope for a bit? Do a bit of stretching.

Here is my logic behind warm-ups:

1.     You want to get the blood flowing to the working muscles and joints you are about to use.

2.     You want to move the joints involved in the training session around their range of motion.

3.     Activate the muscles you are going to use in that specific workout.

Look at these two examples, one for upper body days and one for lower body days:

Upper Body:

1.     Band overhead passes.

2.     Band pull apart.

3.     Kneeling upper back rotation.

4.     Push up to downward dog or plank to downward dog.

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Lower Body:

1.     World’s greatest stretch

2.     Single leg glute bridge

3.     Side calms

4.     Deadbugs

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