Provide Specific Warm-up Program for Your Clients
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By Sal | April 14, 2010
I know my clients know better, and yet too many of them still stroll in right at the time their session starts and want to start exercising without performing a warm-up. Frankly, I hate this situation because it forces me to take time away from what I have planned for that day, and spend it on doing something the client is perfectly capable of doing without me. It’s particularly vexing – vexing, I say – for my 30-minute sessions. Clients really are wasting their money when they don’t perform a proper warm-up on their own.
So here’s what I’ve prepared for my clients. Feel free to use it with your clients, as well.
As you no doubt know – because I’ve been telling you for years – you will get the most out of our training sessions if you make an effort to get to the gym a few minutes early so that you can properly warm-up. To reinforce this “suggestion” I have compiled a list of a few, simple things that you can do on your own before we have our time together.
- Walk, Stair Master, elliptical or stationary bike for 5-10-minutes. When the weather is nice take a lap or two around the block. Take advantage of nice weather.
- Perform 5 dynamic flexibility movements (should be done in conjunction with any exercises on this list)
- Perform 2 or 3 basic calisthenics movements, such as jumping jacks, squat thrusts and leg drives
- Jump rope for 30-seconds, 4-6 sets, if you are proficient
- Low-repetitions/low-sets of body-weight exercises such as squats, lunges, push-ups
- Use the Indian Clubs (my clients are familiar with the basic Indian Club swings)
Feel free to mix and match and use in any combination. You can still work up a sweat keeping intensity and volume low. Shoot for a leisurely 10-minute warm-up but, as I’ve told you about my warm-ups, on cold, rainy, miserable days you may need to warm-up a little longer. A good warm-up will help us get the most out of your training sessions, so make this effort and you will reap benefits.
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