What's your warm up for legs?

[Rob94hawk]

Usually I do HIIT on the treadmill but I find that this burns me out and I have the leg strength to go heavy or rep depending on the routine of the week. Maybe a light jog and stretching? Advise?

 

[EatMoar]

Usually I do HIIT on the treadmill but I find that this burns me out and I have the leg strength to go heavy or rep depending on the routine of the week. Maybe a light jog and stretching? Advise?

There was an article pinpointing how stretches actually effects you negatively . you'll have to dig to find it. But I just do bw squats, light bike riding and that's pretty much it.

 

[Rob94hawk]

I read that from a few here but didn't research it. Stretching was a daily practice prior to soccer. I'll have to check out the rationale with weights. Thanks.

 

[Nooshefx]

Body weight squats, hops and lunges. Same warm up all the time and works great. My wife does it also.

 

[wicked442]

Body weight squats, hops and lunges. Same warm up all the time and works great. My wife does it also.

Agreed. Save treadmill work for after leg workout.

 

[Swanson52]

5' light treadmill, DiFranco's Agile 8, 5' or so light Prowler pushes & drags, a few hip exercises from Supple Leopard.

Warm up for both squat & dead day takes me about 20', but I'm loose, mobile & ready to go.

 

[Jiigzz]

There was an article pinpointing how stretches actually effects you negatively . you'll have to dig to find it. But I just do bw squats, light bike riding and that's pretty much it.

That is generally static stretching but doesn't transfer to dynamic or other forms of stretching

 

[Jiigzz]

My warm-up routine: Light jog with squats and lunges (5 minutes), hip mobility work (MWOD) and some dynamic stretching then proceed with 3 sets at 3 reps of 40-50-60% of my 1rm then go into my program.

 

[jo1054]

I start squatiing with the bar for about 20 reps going slow
Then 135 doing pause squats then some stretching
Then 225 slow squats then stretch then start my routine

 

[ZiR RED]

Foam roll
Active mobility work (probably similar to DeFranco's or Supple Leopard)
Glutei activation, concentrated hip flexor static stretching
Core activation
3 x 4 @ 40,50,60% 1 RM
GO!

 

[Oscar]

3 mile walk to the gym