Sample specific warm-up exercise and weight loss warmup benefits

Warming up is important for preventing injury as well as gaining maximal benefit from the exercise, because loose, warm muscles will respond better to the challenge of lifting weights. Warm-Up to Strength Training is used for weight loss and for increased strength, speed, power, coordination, balance, agility, endurance, flexibility and muscle! It is used to help eliminate back pain, shoulder pain and knee pain as well as an assortment of aches and irritations all over the body.

Warm-Up to Strength Training is geared to the recreational, amateur and professional athlete, as well as to personal trainers, strength coaches, and other health care practitioners. The Warm-Up to Strength Training DVD highlights limitations and fallacies in traditional warm-up programs and gives practical, researched methods for efficient pre-exercise preparation.


Benefits of Warmup strength Training:
• Increases body temperature and warms the connective tissues
• Increases blood flow to muscles and heart (i.e. charges the circulatory system)
• Delivers more oxygen to muscles (specifically greater exchange of oxygen to tissues because hemoglobin gives more oxygen at higher temperatures as well as greater oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange)
• Increases nerve conduction velocity (i.e. activates the nervous system)
• Improves efficiency (rate and strength) of muscle contraction and reaction time
• Promotes more efficient cellular metabolism (i.e. facilitates metabolic transition to activity-specific energy systems)
• Excites the hormonal system
• Increases the amount of synovial fluid in joints (thereby decreasing the viscosity of the joint capsules)
• Decreases muscle viscosity
• Lubricates the joints and reduces muscle and joint stiffness
• Increases joint range of motion
• Increases muscle coordination through related movements
• Increases work capacity
• Prevents injury

The Warmup Strength training DVD is geared to the recreational, amateur and professional athlete, as well as to personal trainers, strength coaches, and other healthcare practitioners. It features various general and specific warm-up methods including a spine warm-up, Swiss ball wake-up routine, Swiss ball warm-up techniques, balance drills, hip mobility exercises, dynamic stretching routine, stretching demonstration, explosive drills for the upper and lower body, Olympic hybrid circuits, as well as sample specific warm-up schemes.