De La Salle Soccer & CrossFit Sweat Shop
After doing a strength workout focusing on back squats, the De La Salle Varsity Soccer team does some metabolic conditioning to finish out their workout with CrossFit Sweat Shop this week.
The team’s workouts begin with 10 minutes of active dynamic warm-up. A dynamic warm-up begins basic, then gets more complex and specific as it progresses. This type of warm-up increases body temperature, heart rate, and stimulates the neuromuscular system, all of which should be included in a proper warm-up, whether it be for athletes, or the general population prior to their workout. This has been proven time and time again to me more effective than a warm-up that just consists of static stretching.
Here’s an excerpt from a study, from the University of North Carolina, that shows an active warm-up reduces the risk of knee injuries in soccer players.
The intervention involved warm-up activities designed to increase players’ flexibility, balance and strength, as well as their foot planting, jumping and cutting skills, since previous research has shown that approximately 70 percent of ACL injuries are the result of such non contact movements. The routine took 10 to 12 minutes before every game and practice, and was used in place of the jogging and stretching warm ups the players had been using previously.
Read full article here.
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Thursday’s WOD:
4 Rounds
8 Back Squats
300m Row
15 Box Jumps
20 Pushups
