Here is a snippet of our linear warm-up at @bodybyboyle
Dynamic Warm-Ups are a great opportunity to…
– Teach movement skills and to prepare the body for speed work
– Take musculature through full range
– Increase body/muscle temperature
- Bear Crawl:
– Active dorsi-flexion
– Hip, shoulder and torso stability
– Hand to eye coordination
– Prone ground based walking - Inchworm:
????Active hip and spinal flexion
????Complements the teaching of “uniform” spinal curvature development (or re-development)
????Hamstring stretch - Reverse Lunge to Hamstring Stretch:
???????? Complex movement – many things going on here
????Active shoulder flexion
????Glute & Hamstring activation in pull back
????Anterior Hip (Quadricep) Stretch
????Deep unilateral hip flexion in bottom position - High-Knee Walk:
????Posterior Hip Stretch
????Anterior Hip Stretch on the supporting leg - Leg-Cradle:
????Dynamic posterior capsule stretch
????External rotators stretch
????Anterior Hip Stretch on the supporting leg - Straight-Leg Walk:
????Dynamic Hamstring stretch
????Powerful contraction and activation of hip flexors - Straight-Leg Skip:
????”Adds the rhythmic skipping action to the straight-leg walk and increased dynamic stretch of the hamstring” @michael_boyle1959 - High-Knee Run:
????Hip flexor activation
????Anterior tibialis activation - High-Knee Skip:
????Hip flexor and extensor warm-up
????General coordination
