I teach my clients a series of different warm ups. Some are more specific while others are more general. This warm up is called “warm up #3”. If you want to see warm up #1 and #2 you’re going to have to look for it in my YouTube channel :).

Let me state something: walking on the treadmill is not a warm up. Not even my older clients warm up this way. This is how I see it, you walk everywhere. You walk to your car in the parking lot, you walk the entire supermarket when you do groceries, you walk your dog in the morning. You don’t need to walk in the gym, you NEED to warm up.

This is just one way to warm up. The more complicated and advanced the actual workout is, the more important it is to warm up. I integrated a scorpion reach seen in the #animalflow discipline into this movement. This warm up is an extension of warm up #1 and #2. It opens up your hips, stretches your hamstrings and lats, (like the previous video), wakes up your shoulders, provides thoracic rotation (which we need for bad shoulders), opens up your chest. There’s some trunk rotation with flexion and then some trunk extension at the top of the scorpion reach. Go for about 10 reps per side and do them in a controlled fashion. Don’t forget to breathe throughout the movement. #reebok #livewithfire