Warm Ups

Warming up (dynamic stretching) is essential to keep the body injury-free if you play sports or engage in vigorous exercise. Warming up allows cold muscles to gently ease into their routine exercise without too much stress and stiffness at once to cause injury. The best thing before you exercise is to stretch (static) for 15 minutes using the stretches I have provided and others you may already know, followed by warm up exercises and then begin your workout. It is also very important to end you workout session with another 10 minutes of stretching to prevent stiffness and get the most from your exercise. Below I have listed and described some warmups I learned from my rugby team, on of the best in the United States!

Barbie-Ken
Frankenstein
Lunge Twists
Over-Under
Bend-Over

Please check back for descriptions of these warm ups!