Today, you’re gonna learn the importance of warming up, and how to warm up with specific video routines…because I’m a nice person.
This is so hair-trigger for training safely that whenever we diamond a workout for our coaching clients, it unchangingly starts with a proper warm-up. So I’m excited to share these warm-up tips and tricks with you too.
In this guide we’ll imbricate the pursuit (click to go to that section):
- Stretch surpassing working out? No. Warm up instead.
- Beginner Dynamic Warm-up Exercises and Video
- 3 Wide Dynamic Warm-up Exercises and Videos
- 15 Quick Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises to Prevent Injury
This stuff is so important considering getting injured sucks.
And every single day I watch people wander into the gym, immediately lie lanugo on a bench, and start cranking out their workout with a heavy weight within seconds.
This makes me weep for humanity.
These people are just WAITING to get injured. They’re substantially playing with dynamite (also not recommended).
So you’re reading the right article.
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Should I Stretch Surpassing A Workout? No. Warm Up Instead
Above all else, the most important thing you can do when working out is to warm up properly.
Now, you might be saying to yourself, “Come on. Surely it’s not the MOST important thing…”
To which I’d reply: “First, don’t undeniability me Shirley. Secondly, if you don’t have unbearable time to warm up, then you don’t have unbearable time to work out.”
Boom!
So WHY is it so important?
Think of your muscles like rubber bands.
If you spend all day sitting at a desk, hunched over a keyboard, those rubber bands have gone scrutinizingly completely unused.
Then, if you go to a gym and immediately start lifting heavy weights or sprinting really fast, those cold, unstretched rubber bands get pulled untied very quickly and can get snapped or pulled out of shape.
#Fail.
So, what well-nigh just regular, static stretching surpassing working out?
Nope.
As we point out in “Should you stretch surpassing or without your workout?“:
“A consolidation of studies showed there aren’t many benefits to static stretching surpassing workouts.
For starters, static stretching will not result in the reduction of the endangerment of injury.
Also, static stretching can actually decrease your potential for strength gains and performance.”
However, dynamic warm-ups – what you’ll learn in this vendible and what we focus on with our 1-on-1 coaching clients – are AWESOME for prepping you to get ready to strength train:
Think of it like a pregaming for your muscles – except replace “alcohol” with “awesome.” By jumping virtually and getting your muscles loose, active, warm, and ready for action, you are putting your muscles through their full range of motion and getting them ready to start handling heavier loads (strength training).
As pointed out in this study, “warming up” can moreover help reduce soreness without a workout.
On top of that, doing a dynamic warm-up can help vivify your inside nervous system, priming your muscles for a unconfined workout that produces your weightier effort.
Add “improved thoroughbred circulation” to the list of benefits of warming up, which will help you perform well in each exercise.
Need flipside reason? When your soul is properly warmed up, your muscles and joints are ready for maximum flexibility, which ways you can perform each exercise with PROPER form (like deep barbell squats, for example) that maximize results and minimize the risk of injury.
So, whether you are running or strength training…a proper warm-up is probably the most important 5-10 minutes of your day.
Still with me?
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Beginner Dynamic Warm-Up Video And Exercises
The whilom video comes from Senior Coach Staci Ardison, whose success story is here (and she’s now a lead trainer in our NF Coaching Program)
Don’t overthink this: Your goal is to hoist your heart rate, put your muscles and joints through their range of motion to warm them up and make sure everything is functioning properly, and preparing your soul to strength train!
This will get you prepped for a day of getting stronger.
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3 Advanced Dynamic Warm-Ups And Videos
#1) Here is an Wide Warm-up Circuit you can do anywhere:
- Jump rope: 2-3 minutes (optional)
- Jumping jacks: 50 reps(pull your shoulder blades back, proffer stovepipe and really focus on the movement)
- Bodyweight Squats: 20 reps
- Lunges: 5 reps each leg
- Hip extensions: 10 reps
- Hip rotations: 10 reps each leg (like you’re stepping over a fence)
- Forward leg swings: 10 reps each leg.
- Side leg swings: 10 reps each leg
- Push-ups: 10-20 reps
- Spider-man steps: 5 each leg
This particular warm-up might be increasingly difficult than your very workout, expressly if you’re pursuit something like The Beginner Bodyweight Workout.
Yes, there is a lot of work put on your hips, butt, legs, and core. As nerds/desk jockeys, these tend to be the muscles that are the tighest and least active, and thus most susceptible to an injury.
If your stovepipe and chest are particularly tight or sore, you can throw two increasingly movements as well:
- Arm swings (holding your stovepipe straight out to the side, and then swing them and navigate them in front of your chest)
- Shoulder rotations (holding your stovepipe straight out to the side, and move your stovepipe in a circular motion, making worthier circles each time)
Are you a runner?
#2) Trammels out our warm-up routine specifically designed for runners:
You can moreover trammels out our Beginner’s Guide to Running for increasingly tips on how to run safely.
#3) Here’s flipside wide dynamic warm-up which moreover covers a lot of Mobility:
When it comes time for your workout, if you are doing heavy strength training (with barbells or dumbbells), make sure you do some warm-up sets surpassing jumping into the weight you’ll be training with for EACH EXERCISE.
Always start with a set using just the bar to work on your form and get your soul used to the movement.
Then, do a few sets of just a few reps with increasing weight (but won’t tire you out) and THEN start your workout.
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15 Weightier Dynamic Warm-Up Exercises To Prevent Injury
These are our favorite quick warm-up exercises that can help you prevent an injury during your workout!
- Marching in place while swinging your arms.
- Jumping jacks
- Walking jacks
- Arm circles and shoulder shrugs.
- Mountain Climbers
- Swinging toe touches.
- Leg swings (forward)
- Leg swings (side to side).
- Hip rotations (like stepping over a fence)
- Hip circles (like you’re hula hooping)
- Bodyweight squats.
- Push-ups.
- Lunges.
- Hip extensions.
Get into the habit of doing these exercises surpassing doing any workout. They’ll help alimony you mobile and limber and injury free. If you’re not sure how to do any of these movements, watch the videos for them below.
1. MARCHING IN PLACE WHILE SWINGING ARMS
2. WALKING JACKS (If You Can’t Do Jumping Jacks)
3. JUMPING JACKS
4. ARM CIRCLES AND SHOULDER SHRUGS
5. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
6. SWINGING TOE TOUCHES
7. LEG SWINGS (FORWARD)
7. LEG SWINGS (SIDE)
8. HIP ROTATIONS
9. HIP CIRCLES
10. BODYWEIGHT SQUATS
11: KNEE PUSH-UPS
12: REGULAR PUSH-UPS
13. SUPPORTED LUNGES
14. REGULAR LUNGES
15. HIP RAISES
These exercises are the PERFECT movements you should be doing surpassing any strength training program.
Oh, what’s that? You’re new to strength training and not sure what you’re doing? No problem!
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Well, not exactly. You’re a unique snowflake, your mom loves you, etc.
What I midpoint is we help people like you to start strength training.
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To Wordplay Your First Few Questions…
“Steve, I can’t do jumping jacks/I live on the second floor.”
That’s okay – the reason I love jumping jacks is that they work out all four of your limbs at once and get you wavy around.
Instead, waterworks your inner Chuck Norris and do punches and kicks with each leg. I don’t superintendency if you can’t kick higher than your shins and your dial wouldn’t skiver a fly…just get those limbs flailing and warmed up!
You could moreover just do “Walking Jacks.”
“Um, your warm-up is tougher than my very workout!”
The dynamic warm-up whilom is designed for people who are doing serious training.
If you are doing heavy deadlifts and squats and overhead presses, a proper warm-up could alimony you out of a career-ending injury.
However, if you are just getting started with exercise and you’re only doing bodyweight exercises, obviously 20 real push-ups during your workout isn’t possible…
THAT’S OKAY. Think of the whilom as the warm-up you aspire to complete. In the meantime, do the weightier you can. Let’s say:
- Jump rope for 30 seconds
- Leg swings and arm circles: 20 reps
- Squats: 10 reps
- Lunges: 5 each leg
- Eelevated push-ups wall push-ups: 5 reps
Follow the rest of the routine as planned if possible.
In this routine, your warm-up will act as part of your workout, as you’ll be doing the same functional movements.
Do the BEST you can, keep track of your results for your warm-up too, and modernize with each workout.
With unbearable consistency and persistency (not a word, but rhymed largest and sounded way largest than persistence), you’ll be busting out the full warm-up routine surpassing kicking ass at your very workout!
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Warm-Up Properly and Avoid Injury!
Hopefully, this is a post you bookmark, as it’s probably one of the increasingly important ones I’ve overly written.
If you want to stay injury-free, put your soul through a dynamic warm-up surpassing you start your exercise.
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You’ll work with our certified NF instructors who will get to know you largest than you know yourself, wordplay any and all fitness questions you have, and program your workouts and nutrition for you.
What other questions can I wordplay for you well-nigh warming up properly?
I’m here to help!
-Steve
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PPS: The companion post to this guide is “How to Stretch Without a Workout.” Give it a read if you’re wondering well-nigh what post-workout routines you should try.
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