Best Articles Supporting Dynamic Warm-Ups?
Hi, I have Marc's article supporting using dynamic warm-ups but wanted to find at least a couple more to share with my daughter's new coach. Unfortunately he's of the "jog around the outfield once then static stretch" variety so I wanted to have some good proofs of the importance of using DWUs prior to practice & games. I've done a Google search but haven't found anything too useful yet.
Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group This goes into more detail on why the female needs a different warm up .
And by Laura Ramus, P.T., A.T.C.
www.shockaau.com/jump_training_techniques.doc - Similar pages
Thank you SB, I did another Google search after posting and found the following article:
Dynamic Stretching for Improved Performance
I also emailed my daughter's new coach with the above, Marc D's and another article I had in PDF format and was happy to hear he plans on indroducing DWUs beginning with winter training.
How about Men's Health, October, 2009, page 116 (at your news stand now):
A 2008 study of 24 Division I college wrestlers in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning found that static stretching didn't produce any improvement and in some cases led to a decrease in measures of speed and strength. Dynamic stretching, the same study found, is best before a workout to fire up and prepare the muscles for activity by going through a functional range....
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