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Share your warm up and your stretches? This is knowledge I can be trusted with (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Silly title aside what do you do to warm up and if you do any stretching for mobility after a run what are they?

I confess to being extremely lazy. My idea of a warm up is just running a bit easier than normal and the only stretch I do is foam roll my calves and stretch out the old hams on a wall.

Every time I look up articles you get insane fitness blogs regurgitating the same 3 page "easy" routine that you absolutely must do all of or you will definitely die.

So what do actual other human beings do? Come, share your wisdom or commiserate in haphazardness.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I active walk the first hundreds of meters (letting the GPS time to warm up) and run easy the first km. At the end, easy last km. That's it.

Science shows that static stretching before is counter productive. Static stretching at the end depends on you: it can be productive or counter productive. If you feel the need, you can do it, bit if not, nothing wrong to not do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. I thought static stretching was bad for explosive movements but good for endurance beforehand. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't do much warm-up anymore, neither for running out weightlifting. For weights, I will do that movement without weights for two sets.