RUNNERS!!! Are you warming up before you head out?

It’s always a good idea to get your body moving in a way that it is about to do more vigorously so that it is ready for action.

So doing some actions in the body that will fire up the main muscle groups that you are going to use when running is vital.

Warm ups help to-

Activate muscles

Reduce risk of injury

Increase range of movement

Improved performance

Pilates For All led a session for Harborough Athletic Club recently where we went through some of these warm up movements and then we looked at some Pilates exercises that really help maintain runners bodies to allow them to keep running injury free!

Here is a little video showing a flow of warm up movements. Make sure you do the movements on both sides and for a few seconds longer than demonstrated here.

Have a go and see if it makes a difference to your run! Let me know how you get on!