Cathal Byrd walks you through his weightlifting specific warm up drills. Really good selection of exercises. Pick some for your warm up. Also check out Glenn Pendlay’s Upper Body & Hip and Ankle Stretches. Update: Here is a little interview with Cathal Byrd.
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Donny Shankle Drop Snatch Warm Up Exercise
Check out Donny Shankle’s post on the Drop Snatch. A weightlifting warm-up exercise you should be doing.5 sets, 2-3 reps
Dynamic Warm Up for Olympic Weightlifting
Jianping Ma demonstrates a dynamic warm up sequence Olympic lifters. Want more? Check out the Olympic Weightlifting Warm-up Routine by Greg Everett.
Sots Press Shoulder Warm Up Drill
Here is a warm up drill to mobilize your shoulders for the overhead position. Matt Wichlinski’s shoulder warm up Sots Press drill. From: Matt Wichlinski’s Training Compilation
Ankle Mobility Sequence for Warm Ups
Jami Tikkanen has some foot / ankle mobility exercises for your warm-ups.
Starting Strength Routine Generator Spreadsheet
Here is a spreadsheet that generates your complete Starting Strength routine, warm-ups included. Instruction: Go to File – ‘Make a Copy’ to save it to you Google Docs or ‘Download as’ you can edit the yellow fields
Mikko Salo & Dan Bailey Training Day
Edit: Also check out Graham Holmberg’s and Rich Froning’s Training Day The CrossFit Journal has 2 videos available for free download today. “Training With Champions” shows a training session of Mikko Salo and Dan Bailey. Mikko still isn’t following the CF mainsite WOD. So a typical training session for Mikko looks the following. warm-up, row 1k in 1:55 […]
Rubber Band Stretches and Warm Up Drills
More mobility today. This time Matt Wichlinski has a couple of good drills to show. He does some Rubber band stretches to open shoulders, chest and rib cage. The ‘one armed /one legged balance plank row’ (that’s the official name) move at 2:20 will be a nice addition to my warm up. You should try it too. Mobility (Not Just) for Meatheads.
Olympic Weightlifting Warm-up Routine
Here are some nuggets to pack in your ever increasing bag of warm-up exercises. Greg Everett demonstrating the Catalyst Athletics Standard Olympic Weightlifting Warm-up Do 10 -15 reps each direction. Exercise List: 500m row wrist circles elbow circles arm circles over and back arm rotations triceps stretch side bends torso rotations bow and bend hip circles lying iron cross scorpion […]