Do you even Warm Up

Feb 27

If you start hurting during your sport and you didn’t warm up…. You should have warmed up.

Think of any athlete, anyone at all. It can be any level athlete High Schoo, College, Pro, Olympic. Every single one of them has an organized warm up before every practice, every game, every lift.

This is done for 2 main reasons:

1. Decreases injuries across the board.
2. Improves performance.

Warming Up is the one of the most impactful thing you can do to feel better during and after sport.

Do you warm up before you Ski, Mountain Bike, Hike, Pickleball, Tennis, Golf, Etc…

Based on nearly 20 years of coaching recreational athletes, your answer is probably no. Or if you are honest with yourself it’s some half assed leg swings, and a quad stretch...

Doing anything athletic requires a solid warm-up. Set aside 10 minutes and really get warm. Bring up your body temperature, activate your muscles and spend a couple of minutes getting your hips, spine, and shoulders ready to play.

Several things will happen. You will play better, you will hurt less.

Don’t be dense… Warm Up before you play. You can’t afford not to.

With Love,

Ben

Ben Van Treese

FOUNDER

Ben is the Founder of OTM and an expert on injury prevention and training for longevity in mountain sports. His approach starts with the joint health and mobility athletes need to perform their sport with technical precision and safety. He has worked with Olympic athletes and X Games competitors as well as professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, and NHL. He is the author of A Cyclists Guide To Back Pain: Why Stretching Won't Work And What To Do Instead.

Ben earned a BS in Human Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Ohio State University. He has 15 years of experience in the field and is interested in the balance between performance and staying power in the mountains. These days, Ben is an accomplished rock climber (for a big dude) and chases fresh powder all over the Wasatch.

Born in Ohio, Ben grew up in a family of professional water skiers. His mother, a national champion several times over, raised Ben around elite coaches who fueled his interest in the power of training. By the end of college, though, Ben’s spine was fried from too many water skiing wrecks. That’s when he discovered Functional Range Conditioning (FRC), which not only enabled him to return to sport but motivated him to train people for longevity, not just short-term performance.

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