How to Warm Up for Track & Field

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Hi I'm Jabari Pride and your back with ExpertVillage.com. We just got done talking about hydration and staying hydrated to, you know, keep those fluids back in your system, so when you do warm up, you don't hurt yourself. So now we're going to talk about the warming up process. The first thing you want to do when warming up, is you want to run a couple of miles. Maybe anywhere from two to three miles. So with that said, the running form that you want to use when you're running is you want your arms at about a 45 degree angle from your shoulder to your fist. So if this is 90, you want your arms somewhere in there. So as your running, you want to keep your arms in that, that general area. You don't want to have them breaking past 90. You don't want them coming out here. Because you're just doing a warm up jog, we're not sprinting at this point. So remember, 45 from your shoulder to your first, not you know, not at 90. You don't really want to run like this. We're jogging, so you jog like this. You want to keep your wrists straight. You don't want any breaking motion in your wrists when your jogging. Keep your hands relaxed, usually like in fists. Not clenched up in a, in a tight ball, just in a nice relaxed fist, so as your running everything is straight here. You're not getting this motion and your hands aren't flopping all around. So nice you know controlled fist, 45, don't break past 90. And another important thing to remember, when you are jogging, you don't want your, this is called your center line, you don't want your hand going past the center line. Because, once you start torquing your body from side to side, it's a lot of wasted movement, a lot of wasted energy. So remember the hands, they can come to the center line, but you don't want them crossing the center line. So when you're jogging it's going to look something like this. Okay. Note to the editor, I'm now going to walk over the track and then show what I'm talking about in jogging.

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