Hey, Tony, since our last video, have you
stopped running to the court, hitting two dinks and then playing the game?
What I haven't stopped doing is warming up and stretching.
I do it every minute I'm awake.
If you want to stay healthy before you play pickleball, you better stay tuned.
Hello, everybody this is Tony Roig from In2pickle and one half of VIPickleball.
I'm here with CJ Johnson.
I'm from Better Pickleball and the other half of VIPickleball together, we help
pickleball players over 50 live their best lives on and off the pickleball courts.
Make sure that before you get to the
court, you warm up a little bit, a little bit of walk fast, a little jog.
Or if you're here at the court,
just lift your feet up a little bit, get your heart rate elevated.
You never want to stretch cold muscles.
When you start stretching, you want to do what's called dynamic stretching.
And that's just a fancy way of saying, do it while you're in motion.
So, Tony, let's start with our upper bodies first.
Let's just start with next.
Let's get our next loose and just turn side to side.
Perfect. Do this for a couple of seconds.
Once you've got that. Now let's roll side to side.
There we go. All right.
Here's one of my favorite.
Get your hands down here.
This is good for both our back as well as our shoulders.
Let's start twisting and notice how we're both coming up on our toes
as we twist and you want to feel the momentum, carry you all the way around.
Feel like you're really twisting your spine.
That's a fun one. This one is really hard to stop, isn't it?
Okay. All right.
Now that you got that, let's get into the shoulder just a little bit more.
Let's bring it across our shoulder.
Then let it go.
Then across, let it go and the other one across.
Let it go up and across.
Looks good and let it go.
Let's not forget the legs, right?
We have to warm up our legs just a little bit.
So let's get foot out in front of us heel. And now we're going to go.
I want you to go down, go forward and then come all the way up.
So it's like you're making a big roll. There you go.
You should be feeling this.
I feel it in the hamstrings. Yeah.
Your hamstrings are a little tight, aren't they?
Yeah. Okay.
Let's go to the other leg.
Put the other foot out in front and again, down and all the way through.
You're keeping this emotion.
Even if you do this just a couple of times
before you get out on the court, it will help you.
All right, Tony, let's get our feet a little wider than shoulder width.
And now what we're going to do is we're
going to stretch out the inner part of the thigh, just going side to side.
And you stay there.
I'm going to change my direction a little bit.
You'll notice here that my behind is going backwards.
You don't want to get out over the front of your toes.
All right. Our friends are waiting.
We got to get going.
But there's one more place we have to stress.
Let's do it. It's got to be the calves.
All right, calves. All right.
So what we're going to do?
Feed our boss shoulder width apart.
We're going to come up onto the toes.
Now, here's the hard part.
Go down under the heels.
Lift your toes up in the air like a rock and back.
You got it as I can do.
All right, now I know our friends are
waiting, so it's time to go and play some pickleball.
Let's go.
I don't know about you watching this, but TV.
I'm going to tell you one thing.
I'm going to be eating all of these exercises into my warm up routine.
You better be because I'm going to be checking on you now, if you want to stay
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