“YOUR WORKOUT IS MY WARM UP”
“Why should i warm-up? it’s a waste of time”You have the same thinking? continue reading because this post might change your thoughts! Let’s hop into!
Why should i warm-up?
Exercising without a warm-up is a huge no. When you are performing strength training exercises, your muscles lengthen and shorten, and if they aren’t warm or ‘prepped,’ your muscles are more prone to tear and pull, When you skip a warm-up and just go from 0 to 100, you’re setting your body up to be less efficient—and potentially end up with an injury.
How warm-up helps before a workout?
National Strength and Conditioning Association, said the key components of a warm-up are “increasing the body’s core temperature, muscle activation and mobility. By increasing the body’s temperature, you loosen the tissues around your joints, increasing their range of motion. Better flexibility does two things: allows your body to move better through the motions of your workout and helps to protect you from injury.
Incorporating mobility will help reduce the risk of injury and help the body utilize the correct muscles for certain movements and prep them for power production. The technical build-up piece is to introduce the body to complex movements at a simple level first. For example, you’d maybe warm-up with some squats to prep your body for squat jumps later in the actual workout.
Warm-up takes a lot of time!
“Yes warm-up takes a lot of time”, that’s what you think right? No! you lack knowledge! The truth is, you really only need five minutes to get in a good warm-up.
You just have to stop looking at it as taking away from your workout, rather recognize that it’s helping you better maximize the minimal time you’ve got.
So let’s start the 5 minute warm-up routine
Jump Rope Warm-up
Ya that’s right you only need a jump rope to warm-up. There are a lot of training tools you can use for your warmup and i suggest you experiment with all of your options, but i personally do skipping. Skipping not only pumps blood to your whole body but has many health benefits too as Tones Muscles in Lower and Upper Body, Helps Attain Balance, Coordination and Agility and more.
i’ll make a seperate post on benefits of skipping as there are a number of benefits and can’t be covered in this post. so follow me to stay updated.
But why jump rope?
The jump rope has always been a great warmup tool for me. It gets the heart rate up, the blood flowing, and sweat dripping. With the use of heavy jump ropes, you now have a lot of options in regards to how you put together your warmup.
More so, there is a level of coordination and focus that is required with jumping rope that translates well to challenging training sessions. So a short jump rope session before your workout not only warms up the body, but also the mind.
And yes the jump rope is portable so you can pull them out of your bag any time you need to do a quick warm up before any workout. You can’t do that with many training tools.
Hey but here’s a catch, skipping is a great work-out but one needs to be really careful, especially in terms of footwear and surface. One should do it on a soft surface to avoid any kind of injuries. Also people who are already suffering from knee problems should avoid skipping or perform at low intensity.
Jump Rope Warm Up Routine for Beginners
- 1 Minute – 2 Foot Jump
- 30 Seconds – Air Squats
- 1 Minute – Jump Jacks
- 30 Seconds – Reverse Lunges
- 1 Minute – 2 Foot Side-Side
No matter what kind of workout you’re doing, this beginner warm up routine will get the job done you’ll get your heart rate up, your blood flowing, and your body temperature up. Try this warm up before your next workout and let us know how it feels.
The Bottom Line: “Don’t skip your Warm-up“
It’s an essential component to any training routine if you want to improve your performance and minimize your chances of injury. We’ve given you a warm up routine that you can use to prepare your body for the training. Try this routine and let me know how it goes.
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