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Before you can attack your workout, you must first prepare your body through stretching flexibility exercises. Before commencing an intense session, I always go through a series of ground based movements in preparation for the session.
A good warm up makes you more flexible, improves endurance and balance.
In Jiu-Jitsu, there are great demands on your body through grappling, punching, striking, throwing, joint locks, landing and so on. Before all this happens, a warm up that increases your core temperature and warms up all the specific muscles that are about to be recruited can only enhance your performance.
Through good stretching flexibility exercises, you will also increase your joint range of motion and there is much less chance of an injury occurring during the workout too.
The quality of stretching flexibility exercises is far more important than volume, learn to perform them correctly right from the off. It may seem like a workout on their own during the initial sessions but get your body used to performing them regularly before working out and they begin to feel more like the warm up they are intended for. As the session becomes easier and you can perform the stretching flexibility exercises very correctly, only then should you increase the intensity.
With an increased range of motion, you will find that you are stronger in unorthodox positions.
Training year round, with the consistency of adding such sessions to your workout will really help you to progress in your art.
I will add some of the specific stretching and flexibility exercises to this site.
Train Smart – Fightwize!
Tags: jiu jitsu warm up, Stretching Flexibility Exercises, warm up exercises
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