Warm-up Drills For Runners
Guess what?? I actually got up and ran this morning! If you’ve been reading my blog, you may know that I always say I am NOT a morning person. I have way more energy in the evenings and am a definite night owl. Well, last night I was exhausted and went to bed at 10, and ended up getting up before my alarm this morning so I went for a run. It actually does feel good to be done with my run for the day…maaaybbeeee I’ll consider doing it again tomorrow
Anyway, today I wanted to post warm-up drills for runners. I do this before all of my runs, and have been having my cross country team perform these drills as well. I’ll add video tutorials after the image in case you’re not familiar with some of them.
So you’ll do each of these for about 50 meters on the track before moving onto the next exercise. It should take 5-8 minutes total.
A-skips are like high-knees but you’re focusing more on driving the knee up rather than moving rapidly. Here’s a video:
Mummy walk is simply where you walk forward and bring up your leg. Try to tough your opposite hand to your opposite toes. You’ll feel this in the hamstrings. Don’t do it with force and strain a muscle. Stay nice and controlled; it’s okay if you can’t touch your toes.
Who doesn’t love cariocas??
With the low squat you get into squat position and walk laterally (to the side). Stay in the squat position the whole way, then switch sides.
Lastly we have the hip flexor opener. I couldn’t find a video showing exactly what I do. So I’ll try to explain it and then show you a video that is kind of similar.
Basically, you pick your knee up as high as you can, then move your knee out to the side 90 degrees, put your leg down and repeat on the other side. It is as if you are picking up your leg to go over and around a hurdle. So foot and knee up, knee out and around, foot down.
This video kind of shows it but she is using hurdles.
If you have any questions about any of these, feel free to tweet me! (@PattyRivas13). I’m awful at explaining things so it is very possible I don’t make any sense here
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