Everything that we do as coaches and as trainees should adhere to an intelligent design and serve a purpose. Dynamic warm ups (DWU) and Static Stretching (SS) were once performed to increase muscle and tendon suppleness, to stimulate blood flow to the periphery, to increase body temperature, and to enhance free, coordinated movement (meaning the muscles working in coordinated effort)Īcross the fitness landscape DWU’s have morphed into short intense mini-WODs. Unfortunately, following this method negates the true training focus of the DWU. Now if we flip this saying and make it “our warm up is a workout” then you see my previous reference to how things can go harmfully wrong.Īs we have become more educated about fitness and movement we have distorted the line between warming up and my new term a ‘workout-warm up’. Regardless, even the ‘elite’ among us can get this process harmfully wrong.
The fact is with the plethora of fitness knowledge and accessibility via the internet many fitness circles are still unsure how to properly warm up. Of course we all get a good laugh as we picture the masses of people dress-right-dress in organized treadmill columns watching CNN at their nearest $10 judgement free zone. Dare I say, it isn’t so funny.
Go onto Google images and you can search neat little sayings like “Our workout is your warm-up”. How these various demographics warm-up is the subject matter of this short blog post. Walk into any gym, athletic club, or CrossFit and you will see people of all fitness backgrounds and abilities gearing up to ‘crush’ their intended workouts of the day.
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