December 2018 Hangout: Warming up

In this month’s hangout we look at warming up from a few different angles with four of our authors: Carrie Lane, Mike Bahn, James de Lacey, and Martin Bingisser. Topics included:

• Warming up for winter sports.
• Routine, culture, and warming up.
• Comparing warmups within track and field event groups.
• Warming up too much, and avoiding dependencies in warming up.
• Warming up in a team (rugby) environment.
• Integrating sprinting and speed work into the warm up.
• Aligning competition and training warm ups.
• Designing warm ups for unique competition environments, and making the warm up (and athlete) adaptable.
• The role of adrenaline in competition warm ups.
• Bringing focus through the warm up.
• A detailed look at rugby warm ups.
• Making warmups fun, and advantages/disadvantages of integrating games into warming up.
• Letting athletes individualize warm ups and take ownership.
• The role of team culture in warming up, and learning from an athlete’s motivation to train.