Why You Should WARM UP (I did an experiment)

Finally, an evidence-based reason why you CANNOT skip the warmup…
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - The experiment (workout explained)
01:15 - The workout
03:48 - Heart rate warm up vs. no warm up
04:55 - Muscle oxygenation
06:30 - How to warm up for a high-intensity session (crossfit, hyrox, functional fitness)
DEVICES I USED
Muscle oxygen sensor - train.red/
Garmin HR strap - www.amazon.de/-/en/Recording-...
#crossfit #wearables #physiology#warmup

[@ryan.coogler]

I appreciate this work. Anyone that complains about the scientific process should do this themselves and absorb the cost to complete such a task.

[@wod-science]

Yes. Those videos take up a lot of time and effort! But no complains. Very fun.
The other comments were correct though, this is not a fully scientific study, rather a small case study to show the differences between warming up or not. 👍

[@gwunder2003]

Ok ok ok, I will warm-up better for now on. I have a bad habit of using the beginning of a workout to warmup into it ☹️ haha. This is such great information.

[@wod-science]

For high intensity work… a warmup is important!
Thanks for the nice words. Appreciate that.

[@mj8482]

For strength sessions would you say its adequate to just work up from lighter to heavier weights? Or should we be doing some cardio for blood flow?

[@wod-science]

After movement prep (5-10 min) you can indeed simply work up from light to heavy. Don’t over complicate the warm up during strength work.

[@NYMballislifeMLB]

Do you believe that you were fully recovered (back to baseline) in 30 minutes before the warmup intervention?? Also, you should do a crossover design starting with the warmup first and then no warmup to truly get valid data. I personally believe my body temperature will still be elevated after a 6 min AMRAP 30 minutes later.

[@T0nbiklas]

I also was thinking about that. It could even be in two different days

[@wod-science]

It’s a good point of which I thought about on beforehand. A cross-over design would have been better but not necessary in this case as the ‘no warm up test’ can be seen as part of the warm up for the second 6 min AMRAP. Yes, body temp was likely still elevated, but that is no problem as this was the goal of the warm up anyway.
This little experiment was to show you that you can do two times the same workout with each time a different physiological outcome.

[@akoulahmohamad7025]

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