warm up routine

[HungFamilyFist]

I have been in the process of creating a 1/2 hour to 40-minute warm up routine to use when i teach class. the goal is to get everyone's heart moving and break up the tedium of stances. The current work i have in it is all our hung gar stances(horse, bow and arrow, cat, dragon/twisthorse, gwai ma), as well as a couple shifting stances from Wing Chun. In addition i have put in i Gong from the Yit Gung Ging, tai chi, and other things i've seen. Also have some dynamic tension drills.

So what are your favorite warm up exercises? What drills do you do that I can add to my routine and claim as my own?

[Asmo]

[bailewen]

A half hour to 40 minutes is not a warm up. That's a work out.

It may be a light workout or a gentle workout but a warm up should, by definition almost, not really take more than a few minutes. 5 to 10 minutes tops. More than that and you are wasting time you could spend actually training.

A warm up, definition, is just something that warms up the muscles so that you are ready to do more vigorous exercise. There is no reason that you should not be able to do real training within the space of an hour. Just keep the warm ups down to a bare minimum, just enough to break a light sweat. Once that happens, you are warmed up.