Workout Warm Up

To stay with a "Before a Workout" theme, I'll mention the best way, I've heard, to warm up before a workout. Naturally, you'd think stretching is the best way to warm up. I thought so too, until I took the Personal Training course in 2012. My instructor said, the best way to warm up, is to do a few exercises you're going to do that workout with lighter weights.

For example, if I'm going to do a Chest, Shoulders, and Triceps workout, first, to get the blood flowing, I'll jog on the spot for about 20 seconds, followed with 15 jumping jacks. Then I'll grab some light weights, do 10 Chest Presses and 10 Chest Flys to warm up my Chest, 10 Shoulder Presses and 10 Upright Rows to warm up my Shoulders, and 10 Overhead Triceps Extensions and 10 Triceps Kickbacks to warm up my Triceps. After that, I'm good to go.

If I'm working out my Back and Biceps, after the jogging and jumping jacks, I'll warm up with 10 Back Rows and 10 Back Flys, and 10 Biceps Curls and 10 Hammer Curls.

You get the idea for Legs, I do some Lunges and Calf Raises too warm up. If I'm going for a jog, I'll just walk for a couple minutes to loosen up my legs, and start jogging.

Stretching, I've heard, is for after the workout.