If you want to avoid injury, then a thorough warm up is what you need.
The aim of a warm up is to increase core body temperature and to warm up various movements that you'll be using in practice, or during a game.
It is also a great opportunity to stretch out tight muscles, open up restricted joints and activate dormant muscles to give us optimal range of motion to move through, allowing us to play at our best.
Unfortunately a lot of teams are still going through the static stretching protocol of the 80's which can actually decrease the one quality we want above all others, force output. Not a great thing to do when you want to be at your most explosive!
Tomorrow I will attempt my 1st youtube video with a full dynamic warm up geared towards Aussie Rules Football which can be used prior to training and playing.
Be sure to tune in tomorrow to check it out.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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I agree with the warm-up...it needs to be dynamic as opposed to static stretching. Static stretching is a process that tells the body to settle down as opposed to get ready for a workout.
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