Warm up is done to prepare students for the actual training session. It is literally raising core body temperature 1-2 degrees Celsius (1.4 to 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit). It’s done in three stages of general warm-up, stretching and sport specific activity. Proper warming-up not only loosen stiff muscles, improves performance as well.It’s standard and essential in all training sessions (additions can be made if the instructor sees necessary) in every Sayokan clubs and takes around 30 minutes.
Sayokan warm up planned to improve Alp’s level of performance, develop physical strength and flexibility needed and build on it, accelerate the recovery process needed before training again, increase awareness, improve coordination, improve elasticity and contractibility of muscles, and a greater efficiency of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. As a result, warm up and cool down is an essential part of both the training session and competition itself.Basic drills and techniques are added to the warm up and cool down in order to integrate well with the training session and cover the entire syllabus. In the warm-up intensity starts low and then gradually increases.
By the end of the warm-up, the exercises reach the target intensity planned for the beginning of the main part of the workout. Starting the warm-up at a high intensity is counterproductive and so is having drastic changes from a high to a low intensity of exercises.
Due to counter productive nature, active and isometric stretches are not part of the warm up. They are likely to cause stretched muscle to be too tired to perform the actual activity of the training session for which body is prepared.
Isa Alemdag, Tanyu / SWF Vice President