SWITCH ON WARM UP

I've never been a really big warm up guy personally much preferring to do my warm up as close to the game as possible.

Other players like a longer warm up and that's fine too but what is the warm up really about?

Is it to warm up the muscles used in a game of footy?

Is it to rehearse movements used in a game of footy?

Sure but haven't we trained since November and the muscles are as conditioned as they'll get and game movement rehearsed enough for the most part?

We constantly talk about switching on during warm ups/pre-game but fail miserable to create an environment that requires much if any psychological input.

This starts with the warm up.

This video below is from Rugby turned AFL youth coach (thanks to his daughters!) Craig Gunn about warming up your players psychologically to where he states that the warm up should have a more psychological then physical focus and I agree with him 100%.

My local team will go into it's 3rd or 4th year doing the exact same warm up - after repeating the same basic warm up for 3/week for that long how stimulating do you think it is?

For someone like me who prefers more intense but shorter warm ups, how would this be preparing me games you think?

And do you think I'm the only one that feels like this?

OK here's the video...

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