just curious to see what type of warmups everyone does when they train.
that many of you on here and no one trains huh
jumping jacks, skip knees, situps, pushups, rolls forward-backward, breakfalls, light/no contact 4 hit combos with a partner, flow drills, shadow box, jump rope, and about 1000 others
yeah i guess it is kind of a broad question. we train warm ups for about a half hour. just wondering what you guys think as far as what is too much before training.
benchpress and lots of it
sometimes we hit it hard and basically get your second wind by the time, you start training. other times we use minimal amounts of time warming up. I don't think it really matters.
I think the traditional concept of warming up is largely a myth. That's why I like to stick to warmup excercises that translate to some aspect of fighting rather than just endless jumping jacks and situps.
However, I do like to have been working out for a minimum of a half hour before any hard-sparring/rolling.
I like to start with 10 minutes of easy jogging followed by movement drills: triangles, armlocks, ooma plata, arm drags, double leg takedowns, level-changes or replacing guard from turtle drills.
I do get annoyed by warm-ups that go on for too long before training and really eat into practice time. Shouldn't need more than 10 min. or so for warm-up and stretching. I pay the gym for training in techniques, not a half hour of warm-up exercises. Now, if they are technique-based repetition drills, I have less of a problem with it, b/c that is useful for improving skills.
A 2-3 minutes of jogging with some rolls thrown in followed by 5-10 min. of 30 sec -1 min. circuits of various bodyweight, dumbbell, band, or partner drills depending on the day.