Warm Up Exercise Routine To Do Before Workout

http://www.LeeHayward.com

One of the most critical, yet neglected, parts of a successful weight training program is your warm up routine. A lot of guys will either skip the warm up altogether or just skim through a half assed warm up and then jump right into their heavy lifting.

Now while they may get away with this for a little while, it's eventually going to catch up to them are they are going to get injured. And depending on the injury it could set them back several weeks or even several months in their workouts.

Warming up serves 2 purposes...

Injury prevention. This is obvious because you are less likely to pull or tear a muscle if it's fully warmed up.

Mental focus. By going through a proper warm up routine you can help get your mind and body in the zone. It's hard to just jump in cold and generate 100% intensity right off the bat. However, when you take 10 minutes or so to prep yourself you'll feel stronger and be more focused during your workout.

This is the warm up exercise routine that I go through before each workout. This will get the blood flowing and prepare your body for your weight training workout. Great for preventing injury and warming up sore muscles.

Just watch the video presentation below to see exactly how I go about warming up before hitting the weights...

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• pre-workout
• bodybuilding
• routine
• muscle
• warm
• up
• exercises
• stretches
• fitness
• before
• workout
• exercise
• warmup
• injury
• prevention
• weight
• training
• Warming Up

[Jedd41]

dude...your gym is empty

[leemhayward]

@Jedd41

I usually shoot my videos later in the evenings or after hours when there is hardly anyone around.

[SkillerJ0el]

We call the second machine a cross trainer in the U.K

[leemhayward]

@SkillerJ0el

Yeah, a lot of folks call them Cross Trainers here as well.

[maligunduz]

i run 20 minutes before work out.is it enough?

[leemhayward]

@maligunduz

That's a good warm up, but you should still do some exercise specific warm up moves like I shown here in this video.

[pinoycj23]

steve'O from jack ass lol

[GuitaristJesse2442]

your videos are great!

[Jedd41]

@leemhayward ....makes sense...and I have a question: do you recommend doing some cardio before or after your workout?

[leemhayward]

@maligunduz

How much cardio you do will depend on what you are training for. But I personally recommend doing 5-10 minutes of cardio as a warm up before lifting as a general warm up. Then if you want to do more cardio, do it after your weight training workouts.

[leemhayward]

@vivmaidenised

Well, you could follow the advice in this video and warm up properly before each workout :-)

[vivmaidenised]

I am having a pain on rotator cuff area from last three days I guess it is due to lack of warm up before the weight training so lee how could I get rid of it.