How much thought do you give your warm up? Where did your warm up protocol come from? For most riders it’s a borrowed routine, something a coach prescribed, or they read online from a pro team, or just something they’ve always done. But what if your warm up is actually costing you performance instead of priming you for it? How hard should it be? And how long should it last? By asking those questions and making a few key changes to one rider’s warm up he added 35 watts to his time trial power.
In this episode of Performance Process, Ronan Mc Laughlin sits down with Chris Blomfield-Brown, performance and technology specialist, to unpack why we should stop calling it a “warm up” and start thinking about it as “activation.”
Together they break down: why most warm ups are counterproductive, why an individualised warm up protocol matters, how practicing your warm up can deliver huge gains, and how to time the end of your warm up with the start of your event. This episode is full of practical tips on intensity, timing, cooling strategies, and individualisation, that could change the way you think of warm-ups.
What is Performance Process?
Welcome to the Performance Process podcast, hosted by Ronan Mc Laughlin and Caley Fretz.
This podcast is dedicated to unearthing and analysing the processes behind some of the most successful athletes in the world, and understanding how every rider can apply them to their own improvement.
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