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Best Warm Up Ever


Warmups are so important for your session, and this one is a beauty. It gets you going, gets you mobile, explosive and feeling ready for anything. As I mentioned the whole thing is great, there are lots of things you can add and take away to suit you best, however this kind of warm up is good for keeping you mobile. It can even work as a separate session. remember to do everything twice, and to jog back in between.

Best Warmup Ever! from LaurensFitness on Vimeo.

This is a great warm up to do before any activity. Gets you mobile and gets you moving. Find out more at laurensfitness.com.

Here are the components of the warm up in order and some teaching points. Mum was calling out each component and can’t read my writing!

Jog- Simple, jog up and down twice.

Knee to Chest- Walk, pull your knee to your chest and come up on your toes

Butt Sits- Ankle to knee, and sit down, hold it for one second. Concentrate on actually sitting.

Hamstring Walk- Simple dynamic stretch for your hamstring

Quad Walk- Simple dynamic stretch for your quads, try and jerk slightly at the end like I do to get that stretch

Side Step- Just to keep things moving, although the jog back should do that just fine.

Lunge to instep- Take your elbow to your instep, great stretch for almost everything

ITB Walk- Dynamic stretch that targets your ITB and the side of your butt, the foot that is in front is the side that you go. I did one the wrong way!

High kicks- Simple high kicks for your hammies.

Skip with Arm Swings- Just something for your arms.

Hip Overs- Taking your foot over something imaginary, skip in between.

Skips- Pretend there is a bar coming out of your ankle and skip over it, fast.

Lunges- Put your arms in the air to get that fascia stretch.

High Skips- Same as skips but very high, use more power, you’ll be warm by now.

REMEMBER

Do everything twice, even though I did it once. Jog back every time, you have to keep moving.

Would love to hear some feedback after everyone has had a go, it’s my favourite and I use it a lot.

As I mentioned in the video I will be away from the blog for a bit, I wanted to leave you with something you could use. I will try to answer comments but I am not sure if I can get on the internet for the next week. Enjoy the warmup, and I will speak to you soon.


Comments

  1. Those are great warm up tips. I usually just run two laps around the track and stretch, but these are probably a lot better for me. Here’s a question, what is better for losing weight, sprint or endurance workouts? Thanks, Matt

  5. Hey Matt

    depends on your goals really, sprints probably burn a bit more quickly, but slow long endurance is great for recovery and fat burning without going intense all the time. Sure, short tough intense workouts will burn more, but sometimes a long walk is good for the body and will burn a fair chunk of energy.

  6. Good warm up, I have done some bad ones, the one we do for hockey is terrible ugh static stretching i just go off to the side and do my own.

  7. This is an excellent warmup – relatively quick, efficient and thorough. I especially liked the “lunge to instep”. I’ve never seen the lunge performed in that matter before – and I’m not sure that I can now – but we’ll give it some time.

    Great video!

  8. Good post. There are so many good warm up routines. The main thing is to do something dynamic to prepare the CNS for activity and to turn muscles on. static stretching actually turns muscles off.
    Check out Mark Verstegans Movement Prep. Its a great warm up and we use it quite a bit.
    Thanks for visiting my site and ill look forward to checking your site out more and hopefully hearing from you as well.
    take care
    Chris
    chriskolba.wordpress.com

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