| Hockey warm ups are vital for playing hockey on the | | | | and later returning with a jump to the initial form). |
| ice and for working out when off-field, but many | | | | Probably you have never thought about the common |
| players do it wrong the whole time. A great deal of | | | | push-up as a great warmup exercise. Actually, they |
| players, stretch to come loose and to prepare | | | | are an ideal exercise for this intention. Push-ups are |
| themselves to play. What they do not know is that | | | | brilliant because they help your muscles to start |
| only performing basic stretching lowers their | | | | working and they increase your heart rate, they also |
| performance. That's why you always need to do | | | | help to slacken the joints in your body. Do not |
| dynamic stretching, which includes these three | | | | exagerate, you do not want to use them as physical |
| exercises. | | | | exercise, rather as a warming-up to prepare to your |
| The jumping jack is one of the most powerful warm | | | | body for action. |
| up exercises you can do to make your blood flow, | | | | You can do leg swings backwards to front or from |
| increase your heart rate, and loosen up your joints and | | | | left to right. They are excellent exercises to warm up |
| muscles making them ready for the game. You only | | | | your lower body since they can make your joints and |
| need to find a wide area where you can move and | | | | muscles stretch and come loose, without reducing the |
| jump and make some sets of 10 to 15 jacks. (If you | | | | ability for them to do their job. Simply balance your leg |
| are not familiar with the jumping jack, it consists of | | | | from front to back (or from side to side), adding a little |
| going from an idle standing position, leaping and landing | | | | bending to the knee. |
| with your legs separated while you raise your arms, | | | | |