As with “The Training Room” page on this site, no exercise recommendations are being given on any of the web pages of this section. The exercises shown here are solely for educational purposes. Care should always be taken when deciding to attempt new exercises. You may lack the strength, stability and/or flexibility to properly execute some of the movements in this section. This is why assessments are incredibly important. Remember the motto from well respected Neuromuscular Therapist and fitness professional educator Paul Chek, “If you’re not assessing, you’re guessing.”

As part of a good warm up to any exercise first perform the exact exercise with only about half of the training weight that you expect to work out with. 20 to 25 repetitions makes for a good warm up set. If it is a body weight exercise such as push ups, then do 20 to 25 push ups standing with your hands on the wall or on the floor with both your hands and knees on the floor. Contrary to popular belief, aerobic training by itself does not make for a good warm up to strength and/or flexibility training. It is a very different kind of activity, which is also highly overrated in the United States. If you truly want to warm up muscles for strength training, they should be warmed up via movements that mimic or exactly duplicate the exercises that are going to be performed, but obviously with much less intensity.