How important is warming up?

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How important is warming up? really? Do you tend to skip the warm up?

It’s important. It might not feel important because isn’t necessarily hard and what impact will it have if it’s not? Also, many of us find it quite boring and if we are short of time it’s easy to push that priority to the side. However there are no questions about it, warming up is really important to get the most out of the activity you are set out to do and for a healthy, strong and resilient body in general.

What will warming up do for you?

• Activate muscles that are going to work
• Activate muscles that have a tendency not to be active as a result other muscles have to work harder and the risk of injury gets higher.
• Warms up your heart rate and breathing to get oxygen out into your blood.
• You will be stronger / faster / more agile /better endurance if you warm up.

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Do you have to be specific?

No, sometimes a 3-5 min of raising the heat rate will do the job but you get much more out of it when you start being specific.

What to focus on when warming up?

• Some mobility of the whole body focuses
• And something to activate muscles that tends to be weak in general for you. You want them to work too. NOTE, Strengthening these will make a huge difference in your strength and resilience.
• Stabillity exercises tends to be gret when you are warming up.

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It takes me about 5 min to warm up before a bike ride and the warm-up I do before a run is pretty similar. When you are short of time, take 5 minutes to warm up and do 5 minutes less of the activity you set out to do.

You will absolutley benefit from doing this.