Daily warm-ups/ Stretching

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Originally posted by: Coachjd
Coach,

we have gone away from most static stretching before practice. We have gone to more of a dynamic warm-up which takes only 15 min. I picked this up a few years ago from the strength coach at North Dakota State and refined it this past season after visiting the university of minnesota. The dymanic warm has been very good for us, we have not had a pulled hamstring, quad, or groin the the 3 years we have been using it. Here is a run down of our warm-up. We do these drills for 10 yards 2x each. The warm up allows the blood to flow into the muscle groups, they are improving range of motion, developing strength, and working on balance and coordination with some agilities. Football is an explosive sport. By doing static stretching you are taking some of the elasticity out of the muscle to fire. You want a warmed up muscle, not an over stretched muscle.

We do a 5-7 min. static stretch at the end of each practice.

high knee hug
russian walks
walking lunges
laterial lunges
backward lunges
high knee run
high knee butt kick
power skips
Karioka
back pedal

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