To stretch or not to stretch???

John we are a large program and use a dynamic stretch for 5 minutes and then heavy into practice. Coach CAmpbell

Coach Campbell,

What does your dynamic stretching consist of? If you don't mind me asking.


Thanks!

Coach Reddick

Here is a list of what we do.

Dynamic Warm-up (before practice)
high knee hug
Russian Walks
Walking lunges w/ opp. elbow to far knee holding thera-bands in the hands to help stretch the shoulders
Lat. reach and pull (slow shuffle)
high knee run
high knee butt kick
power skips
Tapioka (fast foot karioka)
Karioke w/ front leg up and over
back pedal 1/2 speed reaching legs back as far as possible

I agree, dynamic and ballistic stretches before practice and static after practice.
At a camp recently, the coach had been a grad assistant and Iowa, and we started with a warmup jog around the field, slower movements (knee hug, heel grab, etc) then proceeded into faster movements (carioka, high skips, etc).