How necessery is it to be warmed up before stretching and how to warm up before stretching?

Question

what is chienise split ? and is jump rope good for warming up ?

and what is hamstring?

Answer 1

Yes you definetly need to warn up before you stretch, and jumping rope, jumping jacks, etc. are good. The main reason for stretching before a workout is so that you do not pull something. If you want to gain flexibility, stretch well after your workout when your muscles are warm, and hold each stretch for 30 seconds. This will help the muscle remember the furthest point you got to and make getting back there easier next time.

I think you are refering to the Chinese splits, where your legs are in front of and behind you, vs the American splits with the legs to the side.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Think of it this way: you warm up, do an intensive workout and then feel like you did something productive. Or, you don`t warm up, do an equally intensive workout, but feel like 10 tons of cement doing it and maybe ending up feeling like you don`t want to workout, EVER, or, possibly injuring yourself. Workout is important in a non-street fight scenario, where you have to fight at any given moment, but with martial arts training you aren`t in the same king of hazardous environment and can afford to gradualy build on you`re attributes. Stretching is a way to cultivate the attribute of elasticity, necesarry in some cases. Here are a few exercises: 1.Put you`re leg on a railing, or a bench in the park, or whatever. Star with someting that will keep you`re leg at an angle of 90 degrees, then try to put you`re leg on higher objects. Keeping you`re leg staight and you`re foot at a 90 degree or lower angle, try to put you`re chin on you`re knee. This will not be easy at first, but practice makes perfect, so PRACTICE! Practice every day! Practice untill you reach you`re limit. 2. Try to do the splits. Keep a friend nearby, just in case someting should happen, or feal like you need help. 3. From a standing position, spread you`re legs for a distance of about one and a half shoulder lenghts, then droop on one knee, while keeping the other leg straight. The foot of the bent leg should be firmly placed on the ground, while the other foot should be eather straight up, or like the other foot, placed firmly on the ground. After securing the correct position, put you`re hands eather on the top of you`re feet, or on the knees and swing back and forth from one leg to the other. This will give you flexibility as well as leg strenght. Start with 10 repetitions on each leg for each exercize. Then gradually increase the number and intensity of repetitions, say from week to week. This will help. I promise. I do these exercises myself, so be sure I know what I`m talking about. Train hard, train offten. Best wishes.

Answer 3

Stretching should really be done at the end of a class.

You start your class with your Taiso, then your class, and after, you stretch.

  

Answer 4

jog a little or do high knees and butt kicks to get your legs warmed up and then strech dont strech when your legs are cold it doesnt work

Answer 5

A warm up is important for assisted or ballistic stretching.  Warming up for other stretching is recommended as well. Jump rope is a great warm up.

I do not recognise the term chienese split. It could mean a side to side split.  

Your hamstring is the tendon connecting just above the knee joint.  that is in the large muscle in the back of the thigh. This is easy to tear during high level kicks. Particularly if you are not pre-stretched.

Answer 6

take a 5 minute jog to get you sweating and to get warmed up and then start stretching. Maybe do some plyo's. Bodyweight squats to  get you warmed up and maybe some highknee's and buttkicks like the last person mentioned. Either way you need to warm up before you stretch.