Lets talk about Warming up.

[Curtis "Smash" Klashinsky]

Because I want to have a long life in this sport and don't want to be out all the time due to injuries and tears, I'm assumming that just like any other sport, a Proper warm-up will help avoid injury.

I would like to mostly focus on what everybody does for a warm-up before practices.
I don't know about everybody else. But Our practices tend to go for about 2hrs of Intense, Eyebulging, Gut wrenching Pulling. Good times

I will let you all know what we do for a warm-up and it would be greatly apprecieated of anybody could give me and suggestions to how we could possible improve or modify or add to what we do to help give us the best warmup we could get before a tough practice.

Before a practice we do the following:
- setup at a table wrist to wrist but with our palms facing our own face and we start very light and go to medium pulling to warm up our inner elbow

- we will usually do some wrist to wrist pulling (like in a hook, but just wrist to wrist) and pull for a while like that to get things warmed up.

- Then we start out with light pulling in a hook and toprolling to get everything else warmed.

From that point we go to flat out hard pulling.

Any suggestions, or comments?

Thank you for your time.

[John Milne]

We take our time to warm up as well. For me it usually consists of (3 or 4) 30 second middle of the table pulls with each arm starting at about 20% effort. When warming up I'm not really looking to do anything technical, just pure side or back. The % of effort used will go up with each warmup set.

Even after the warmup sets I dont dive into maximum effort.. I really make sure to take my time before I do that. We rarely give or take any hits in practice... unless Devon wants to play King of the Table (he lets us hit him with everything we've got). Sometimes on those I just gradually build up to max effort without the hits at all.

I'm not convinced either way (for or against) that eyebulging, gut wrenching workouts are the best way to go. I know some may have success with effort like that but I prefer to keep it on the south side of 100%. I think it may be safer and gains will come steady. I also find that if I'm going 100% that sometimes my form suffers.. and at this early stage in my game, grooving the right form is more important than anything else.

[Curtis "Smash" Klashinsky]

Thanks for posting john.
* Because we are a newer team It's great to hear what some of the other teams out there are doing for warmup.*

I didn't mean that our whole workout is 100% effort but I would definetly say that at least 60% of our workout is. We try to stay at 100% effort with good form. We are quite good at correcting each others bad form.


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[Mr. Espey]

Light pulling... back and forth both hook and toproll.

[Curtis "Smash" Klashinsky]

admin said:

Light pulling... back and forth both hook and toproll.

Now Ryan, Don't give away all you tips at once here. ;D

[Mr. Espey]

lol... there is not much more to it.

[Curtis "Smash" Klashinsky]

Fair enough,
Just figured you would have a List of things that we should have been doing.
But if that's it, Then That's it.
Just had to bug you a bit after that short post in a training thread.
You know how it is.

[Mat Helmer]

I'm not really experienced by any means but when I was in the Army, we had a team that enlisted the help and expertise of some members of a local Calgary club. They showed us their warm-up techniques and it mostly consisted of: grabbing a partner, getting on the tables and going back and forth, using the hook and toproll at low to medium intensity. Right arm then left, until you felt warm. After a 5 minute rest, we would get into practice matches.