Ideal Environments to Safely Warm Up for Track & Field

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Hi I'm Jabari Pride and we're back with ExpertVillage.com. We're going to go over some more safety guidelines to consider when you're warming up for your event. Another really important thing is your ideal environments for warming up. One would be just a tartan, which is a, like that rubbery surface, or also known as a Mondo surface track. That is a lot better than your dirt surface track, because with a dirt track you are going to have divots, you're going to have little pebbles, little rocks that you can step on, twist your ankle and then you're warming up and you can't make it to your event because you know, you twist your ankle in the warm up. That would suck. Another thing, ideal environment is the infield. You really want to know your infield before you start just warming up on it. You want to check for any divots, any holes, and any just irregular surface when you're warming up. Because once again, you don't want to twist your ankle, you don't want to break your leg, you don't want to step on anything and hurt yourself when you're warming up. Ideal environment would be the warmth. If you are going into a sprinting event, you don't want to warm up when it's outside where it's 20 degrees. You want to stay inside where it's, you know, 70 degrees or warmer, so your muscles can really get warmed up. Because if it's 20 degrees outside and you're outside trying to get warmed up, I mean, yeah, you might break a sweat, but your muscles are still really going to feel cold because it's freezing outside. You know, so you want to make sure if you are warming for a, such an explosive event like a throwing or running or sprinting or jumping, you want to make sure that you warm up in a warmer environment. If you are doing a distance event, you know, those are actually best to run in the cooler you know environments because their core temperature is coming up and they want to keep it down. So with that said, make sure that you watch the track, check for any irregularities in the track and the track surface. If you are warming up in the infield, in the grass, make sure you check for irregularities on the grass. And mind the temperature when you're outside. If it's really cold out and you're warming up for something that's very explosive, you might want to go inside. Thank you.

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