Make your warm ups short and sweet

And by sweet I mean less strenuous — based on these findings at University of Calgary: too long and too intense a warm up for sprinting, cycling or speed skating, for example, may tire you out too much. This University of Calgary study found that a shorter warmup of 15 minutes at lower intensity (compared to 50 minutes at high intensity) resulted in less muscle fatigue and 6.2 percent higher peak power input.

Leave a Comment May 30, 2011