WHY warm up?
Tendon tears, muscle ruptures, sprains, strains and joint issues are a few reasons to get your self warmed up before nailing that workout.
To add, the benefits pile up, such as making muscles more warmer and pliable, gradually and safely raising the heart rate, most importantly putting yourself in the mindset for a training session grind.
So what’s the best way to warm up?
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Firstly it doesn’t have to be boring, be creative, for example at our bootcamps we may do something like a pyramid warm up. This would be done through two exercises.
You would work the whole body and complete each exercise for 10 seconds then move down to nine seconds and continue this till one.
When creating your warm-up we want to remember to work the specific muscles we are going to use, there’s zero point to working just your legs for an upper body session for example.
Next we need to mobilise the joints and gradually raise the heart rate to a slightly elevated level, this will warm the muscles and also synovial fluid, when this is warm our joints are a lot more lubricated.
Now stretching is common practice.
It is important to note that stretching at the beginning of a workout should not be for long durations, five seconds is plenty on muscles if needed at all. In summary either warm up or drop out!
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