Prepare your body like a pro: Warm up guide for Strength and Conditioning success

Appropriate warm up allows your athlete to prepare their body and prime them for workout ahead, helping to prevent them from injury risks.

Try this warm up before YOUR training session or your athletes!

1. FOAM ROLL all major muscle groups (1 minute per muscle group with a 10 second hold on trigger points. This helps stimulate blood flow and releases muscle stiffness

2. Create a mobility circuit, some example exercises are KTW touches and half kneeling thoracic spine rotations

3. Weighted complex. This includes squat, shoulder press, RDL, Row and reverse lunges. Moving through foundational movement patterns and raising heart rate

4. KEY POINT - Make sure the athletes static stretch or PNF stretch after the session to help relax muscles, improve flexibility, and reduce muscle tension after exercise

*routine in order