Warm up for Squats

[tbody66]

Glad to hear the workout went well! How old are you???

[boz]

I personally feel that best way to warm up is to do the actual movement your about to do for many repetitions. I mean how better else to warm up the nervous system to be optimally primed for your working sets. Heart rate, blood shunting, focus and practice are all happening. One of the worst things to do before performing a lift is to stretch vigorously. It seems counter intuitive until you think about what your actually doing to both the muscle and the nervous system. If you stretch a muscle out, you cause the muscle spindles in the muscle to lengthen out. This sends and inhibitor signal to the spinal cord telling the muscle to contract and protect itself, thus decreasing it ability to produce force.

In other words too much static stretching can hinder performance, right?