The Optimal Body

346 | Should You Be Doing Warm Ups? What's Effective? What's Not?


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Do you warm-up? At times, warm-ups feel unimportant or a waste of time, however, DocJen & Dr. Dom break the confusion in this episode. With a high emphasis on specificity, they explain the importance of strategically warming up the body to prepare for the upcoming movement, how to appropriately activate the body before exercise sessions, whether stretching is really that bad before movement, and how you can optimize your warm-ups for injury prevention. Let’s dive in!


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What You Will Learn In This PT Pearl:

2:30 - Do warm-ups prevent injury.

5:00 - Research around warm-ups. 

6:41 - Physiology behind passive warm-ups.

8:30 - How to actively warm up.

11:45 - Warm-ups and injury prevention

14:00 - Can you stretch before workouts?

16:00 - Are we sure we shouldn’t stretch before workouts?

18:50 - Example warm-up: how to warm up for a lower body strength workout 


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