Colin hood
There are tremendous advantages in designing proper warm-ups before working out in a gym, or before participating in a sport. By putting effort into designing your warm-up it will increase your mobility, flexibility, and stability, which will make you more efficient in activity and more resilient to injuries. I like to call warming up a Movement Prep because they're designed to prepare your body for movement. The reason to design a warm up specific to your activity is because grappler's movements are VERY different to that of a long distance biker. So WHY would jogging for 5 minutes and then static stretching be the best way to warm up? It isn't. So if you're serious about your sport and there is a chance of injury then designing a movement prep is as important as the sport itself, because if you're injured you can't practice your sport.
If you go through a checklist during your warm up of the key things you need to rehearse before your activity, the end result will be increased mobility, flexibility, and stability, on top of an increase of speed and power output by nearly 20 per cent compared to static stretching in some studies. We want to work on improving your long-term mobility, and flexibility of muscles. Rather than have them stretch and go back to where they were - as is the case in traditional static stretching - We want your body to remember those ranges of motion through a process known as active elongation. Active elongation is similar to static stretching except you want to contract the muscle at the end of the stretch, in other words you want to use your muscles in these ranges of motion. By strengthening your muscles in these ranges of motion, you stabilize all the tiny muscles around your joints that help you hold the joints together. Improving posture and performance and decreasing the potential for injury. The most important thing however is to actually activate these tiny muscles, turning on there light switch so they're available and participating at all times. Nearly all world-class athletes have at least one muscle group that has completely shut off, causing other areas of the body to compensate which ultimately leads to injury. An example of this would be the gluteus medius, which if not activated will lead to lower-back problems, knee, pain, and groin strain. These are the best performers in the world not working as effectively as possible, so how many muscle groups have been turned off in you who don't train with the best coaches in the world? Thankfully, with movement prep it takes only ten minutes of activating and lengthening your muscles to help turn you into the performer you want to be.
Movement prep requires no equipment and can be done daily before your workouts to ensure that you are working as efficiently as you can be. At first movement prep might even feel like a workout in itself, but don't worry quickly your body will condition itself to the exercises and when you're done, you'll feel warmed up rather than worn down. Generally 5-10 repetitions will be sufficient in preparing your tiny muscles and nervous system for random, chaotic movements experienced in sport. There are a lot of exercises for specific stabilizers that need to be addressed. If you're interested in learning more about movement prep or to get hands on guidance and proper execution of these sometimes complicated exercises, contact myself for more info. Enjoy!
http://www.coreperformance.com/knowledge/workouts/a-better-warm-up.html
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Colin Hood Bio |
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A Holistic strength and lifestyle coach who privately coaches athletic organizations, businesses, and in-home training. Colin’s health expertise provides his knowledge from his on-going mentorship with Adam Wood and the A.I.R. training system. Incorporating his background with the sport of Kettlebell Lifting and the A.I.R. training philosophy, makes his training uniquely qualified to take you to the pinnacle of performance, and health. Colin is motivated to inspire others by delivering the finest in movement, lifestyle, and nutritional methods to anyone with a desire to succeed. Through the proper planning and sequencing of these strategies, his work is able to deliver this expertise to anyone willing to change their relationship of body, mind, and spirit. |
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Here are some of those specific areas of expertise - To develop a year-round sustainable scheme of achieving your life goals by getting in the best physical and emotional condition possible. - Post-rehab exercise - For people who're just finished working with their doctor or therapist from rehabbing an Injury, or bothered daily by chronic injuries. The methods of treating the body like a structure; to self-heal injuries through an entire interconnection of systems in the body will bring you to another level awareness and function. - High performance Athletic training - To take you to the next level of performance and efficiency, whether you're training at a national level, or enrolling your kids into a new sport. The principles from ballet, yoga, eastern arts, AND world-class athlete strength & power development creates a method of turning you into the most powerful core-centered athleticism possible, the natural way.
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