Are you doing a conditioning workout prior to your strength training workout and calling it warm up?

Maybe. Lots of people think it's necessary to get some degree of exhausted before every workout

so that they can more effectively perform the workout. Now let's examine this idea because it

wastes a lot of time and potential progress. The purpose of warm

up is to prepare the body for the workout. That's all it's for. Conditioning day is a separate

issue and a separate activity. And fatigue from unnecessary warm up is obviously detrimental to the

training effect of the subsequent workout.

Effective warm-up prepares both the tissue, raising the temperature of the components of the kinetic chain to be used in the workout if they're cold,

and the movement pattern involved in the workout.

Both of these aspects of warm-up must be considered in the context of the workout in question.

Proper warm-up, therefore, depends on the nature of the workout for which you are preparing.

If you're going to jog five miles, sprint, 200 meters for 10 reps, or squat, press, and deadlift,

it is reasonable to conclude that each of these different types of workout require a different warm-up.

Jogging may well require an elevation of body temperature if the jog takes

place outdoors, but the movement pattern involved in jogging is short, repetitive, and not very

complicated. In contrast, sprinting is more technical. If trained outdoors, it may also require some temperature elevation,

but it involves a longer range of motion, a timed burst of acceleration, and a shorter duration

that permits fewer errors in execution. So it's not surprising that jogging and sprinting

require different approaches to warm up.

Jogging gets warmed up by putting on your sweats if it's cold and starting to jog,

slowly at first, and then up to pace after a few hundred yards.

Sprinting, depending on the event, may require some specific stretching, some practice of starts off the blocks, and a few floatouts before the first effort at 75%.

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