Warm Up

Trying to Get Faster? Kill Drills!

by Ian Warner July 27, 2010
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Drills are often overlooked in the process of trying to become faster. Why, well they are boring, and it is very meticulous work. Drills provide you with so much, if and only if, you are doing them correctly of course. The main reason drills can be key in helping you run fast is they greatly [...]

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Learn to Warm Up (Pt.2 – The Long Warm Up)

by Ian Warner July 26, 2010
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Read…Part 1 The Purpose of the Long Warm Up – The longer warm up needs to be for those times when there are things inhibiting you from feeling ready to compete at the level needed for that day. It is as simple as that. If you are saying you do not feel good yet than [...]

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Learn to Warm Up (Pt.1 – The Quick Warm Up)

by Ian Warner July 12, 2010

Read…Part 2 The purpose of the quick Warm up – As an athlete I have seen warm ups grow from not doing much at all, to warm ups that last more than an hour. I have come to realize that sometimes athletes can waste a lot of time warming up when it is not needed. [...]

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Walking ‘A’ – Every Detail Matters

by Justyn Warner December 15, 2009

You can improve your sprinting mechanics by breaking it down to it’s slowest component…a walking A. How you practice your walking A is pretty much how you will sprint. During this drill is the time you focus on the mechanics and fix what needs to be changed to sprint efficiently. Ya, they may be small little [...]

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Dynamic Warm-Up vs Static Warm-Up

by Justyn Warner October 7, 2009
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When one thinks of stretching during their warm up, they tend to think of static stretching  as the traditional stretching – holding each stretch for about 10-20 seconds. For sports involving explosive movements like sprinting, research shows that static stretching before any event only weakens their performance. Now I know your already doing what you [...]

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