Proper warm-up is absolutely critical for optimum performance. In the video below, Rose Monday, 2012 US Women’s Olympic Women’s Distance Coach, gives you some warm up drills to have you ready for practice. This is a scientifically designed stretching routine that will really benefit your athletes. Simple activities that get the synovial fluid going. The simple movements that she demonstrates are the minimum that a runner should do before starting their run. They are likely drills that you are skipping.

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