Bruce Lee's Warming Up Method

To warm up, select light, easy exercises to loosen your muscles and to prepare
them for more strenuous work. Besides improving your performance, warming-up
exercises are necessary to preve nt injury to your muscles. No smart athlete will
use his hand or leg violently without first warming it up carefully. These light
exercises should dectate as closely as possible the ensuing, more strenuous types
of movements.
How long should you warm up? This depends on several aspects. If you live in a
colder area, or during the cold winter, you have to do longer warm-up exercises
than do those who live in a warmer climate. Longer warming -up exercises than do
those who live in a warmer climate. Longer warming-up is recommended in the
early morning than in the afternoon. Generally, five or ten minutes of war-up
exercises are adequate but some performers need much more. A ballet dancer
spends at least two hours. He commences with very basic movements, gradua lly
but consistently increasing the activityand intensity, until he is ready to make his
appearance.