Warm Up Routines

The purpose of a warm up routine is to get the muscles warm so that we can go into our stretching routines.  Flexibility plays an important role in preventing injuries.  A typical warm up routine is as follows:

1) Start with a five minute run around the gym. (We change direction every one minute - its a small gym)

2) Back on the mat we do random combinations of bear crawls, hopping, somersaults, running sideways, running backwards and other body movements. This usually will last for another five minutes.  

Stretching routine - The purpose of stretching is to increase the athletes flexibility. In wrestling it is important to have both strength endurance and flexibility.  In addition, good flexibility reduces the chance of injury.  We use both static and dynamic stretching. Typical stretching movements are:

Calisthenics routine - This part of the work out is designed to  "get the blood pumping".  Before we can start drilling or combative wrestling it is a good idea to perform  aerobic type exercises to prepare the body for live wrestling.  The following exercises are common to the callisthenic portion of the work out.

Typically, we will cycle through this routine two or three times.