Warming Up/ Stretching

Before working out or racing it is always important to warm up and stretch. This will loosen up your muscles,  help prevent cramps, and help prevent pulling  a muscle. If you don't stretch and warm up there is a high chance that you will not feel very good on the workout.

So for a warm-up there are 2 kinds. You can either run like 800m and then stretch or you can do a continuous warm up where you still run but then after you do a variety of motions down a pa  100m open space including waling on your toes, or heals, Sumos (pivot your foot and lift up your other leg really high like a sumo wrestler and slowly pivot towards the end), a variety of skips, karyoka ( Have one lg stay in the same place while side stepping but have another leg go in front of it and then behind and then in front of it again.

Touch your toes (Photo credit: lululemon athletica)

there also many things to stretch

a general list includes .

10k Clinic - Post Run Stretch (pt. 2) (Photo credit: ianhun2009)

touching your toes.

stretch your quad by taking one foot and touching it to your butt.

Butterfly stretch

hurdler ( quad stretch sitting down)

Spits

Any yoga poses

A great way to stretch your legs is if you lay down and try to stick one leg t a time straight up, pull on it if

necessary.

well that's it if u have any questions about how to stretch certain parts of the body don't hesitate to leave a comment. Please follow my blog if you enjoyed it and goodbye everyone. PEACE out yo!!!