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Wow, interesting article. That list of warm up exercises to not do, reads like the Fitness First class warm up list.

Actually Matt several of those exercises are ones we do regularly at CFVIC. I’m not 100% convinced if they’re good or bad though which is always the problem; so much conflicting advice - who do you follow?

I guess you have to make your own judgement about it, but the point he makes about your abdominals being designed to prevent your spine from twisting makes a lot of sense to me.

To be honest, I never stretch. My approach to warming up is simply doing the exercise that I am about to do, but at a lower intensity.

That’s the wonderful thing about crossfit, because a lot of the exercises are body weight or high repetition, the early part of the WoD serves as the warm up. Then with the strength exercises, say 7*1 deadlifts, you can work up from 40kg to your max, at a controlled pace.

But rotating your hips one way and your shoulders another? What’s that all about?

Matt, are you saying that you use the first few rounds of a bodyweight WOD as a warm up? Does that mean if the WOD is Cindy, that you would maybe take the first 5mins to warm up and then hit it hard for the next 15mins? If so then I think you are doing yourself a great disservice. I would thouroughly recommend that you do whatever warm up works for you and then hit the WOD (whatever it is) with full intensity from the beginning. Intensity is where the results are.

Haha, I suspected I’d get in trouble for that.

Yes, it’s true, I would not warm up for Cindy.

I appreciate that it’s not a text book approach, but whenever I do warm up (usually by mistake), I feel that I’ve wasted energy. For instance, I jumped in the pool to do a flying 1km yesterday and aborted my run after two laps because my goggles weren’t tight enough.

I “felt” that that lost effort ultimately hurt my time because there’s only so much gas in the tank. In truth, my time was about the same as I’d done 3 days earlier, but I certainly felt like I’d wasted energy and was annoyed with myself. lol

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