Press To Handstand [Intermediate Routine]
What's the best way to warm up for exercise?
If you're finding you a prone to injury, or you're like me, and not a spring chicken anymore then your workout warm up is important.
(between you and me, it's important irrespective of your age)
Exercise warm up is all about specificity and efficiency. You want to properly prepare your body for the workout … but you don't want to interfere with it.
From my observation, there seems to be two types of people … those that spend far to long warming up and waste too much of their precious workout time and energy. At the other end of the spectrum … those that hardly warm up, brushing over stuff totally irrelevant to the actual workout.
Both are incorrect. A proper warm up should:
Get the heart rate up to prime the neuromuscular system
Properly saturate and lubricate the joints with synovial fluid
Prime the nervous system to increase your maximal strength
Gently take the desired joints through their full range of motion
Most importantly, it should be specific to the workout, (and if possible, the individual) because we also want to switch on our muscles and nervous system in the different ranges of motion that our body will be expected to move in including your deep core and stabiliser muscles.
Each of these components are essential for maximising the workout effectiveness and mitigate the risk you injure yourself.
In today's video Rad demonstrates an intermediate press to handstand workout, which includes a great example of a proper warm up that compliments the exact workout he's preparing for.
For those interested, this intermediate press to handstand routine builds on the beginner routine demonstrated last week. If you caught that video, you'll notice similarities between the warm ups … (pro-tip … they're identical).
