Quaranturnt Day 55 - Sun Salutations Are a Warmup AND a Pun

Hey Quaranturnt Crew,

Look up any forum where experienced athletes give advice to their younger selves. Every one of them involves a huge amount of focusing on good form from the start and injury-preventative measures. One of the greatest injury-preventative measures is warming up, which is why I spend a few minutes every day writing out how to warm up for each workout. 

Warming up has 3 goals: 

• Alignment: waking you up from bad positions held all day
• General Activity Preparation: heating your tissues up to be more elastic and getting your blood flowing for supplying your whole body with oxygen and energy.
• Targeted Activation: making sure you engage the right muscles for a lift (e.g. wake up the glutes before squatting or you may only focus on your quads).

Please do the warmups, I want you to be able to push yourself hard without getting hurt! See here for a bit more depth on warming up. Here’s the yoga link below.