8 Essential Leg Warm-up Exercises
- On the same day, always train the legs BEFORE training any other muscle group
- On the same day, never train your legs before any other serious activity involving a lot of heavy leg work, such as a football match or a running race
- Be sure to warmup entirely with gentle jogging or cycling (or similar) before attempting to do the leg warm-up exercises shown above
- So there is a preliminary warm-up before the above leg warm-up exercises. You should begin to do some pilates, muscle stretching, and dynamic stretching as soon as you feel warmed up
- You can do some more stretches immediately following the leg warm-ups
- Squats are included in the above warm-up section because they engage big muscles, burn lots of energy, and generate lots of heat
- Next, you can start working on more leg muscle isolation exercises – Quads, Hams, Calves, Glutes, etc
- Then, it is time (if you still have enough time and energy) to start on the other areas, such as Back, Shoulders, Biceps, and Triceps
- Don’t hit your Abdominals until right at the end! This is so important! The order of exercise execution is just as important as correct form