Warm-up Session-The Most Important Thing before Starting Game

Warm up session is the most important thing need to be done before starting any game. It starts gradually from simple exercise and involves all body parts and muscles and prepare athlete for a competition or game.  Despite of preparing players mentally and physically for a live football completion it also has many physiological effects that may turn into winning the game. Sometime players need more physiological influence on the other team to win a complete.

Football is a very physically demanding game and needs the players have more than ordinary fitness. Warm up session increases the body temperature and prepare muscles, tendons, ligaments, cardiovascular system, nervous system and stretching exercises provide the muscles a great flexibility that helps a player in sudden moves. The elasticity developed by warm up session reduces the chance of injury. A player should be always ready to provide 100 %.

There are basically three kinds of heating and warm-ups.

Passive Heating:

The passive heating system increases the body temperature by external mean like massage, external heating, steam baths or cushion warming. Passive heating is very helpful for the player with physical limitations.

General Warm-Up:

General warm up involves increasing the overall body temperature by operating major muscle groups that may or may not be involved in the upcoming activity for example jogging.

Specific Heating:

The specific heating system involves only warming up the specific muscles and body parts that may be used in upcoming activity, like warming up legs for running.

• Increases the metabolic rate
• Prepares the muscles and nervous system to exercise
• Raises the body temperature
• Increases the heart rate and respiration

Warm up comprises of active motion leading up to more vigorous level to elevate heart, metabolic and respiratory rates. The total warm up session would be consisting of twenty five to thirty minutes before starting the completion or game.

Warm-ups consist of active motion leading up to more vigorous to elevate heart, respiratory and metabolic rates. The total warm-up period of at least 25 minutes and immediately precedes the training or competition. It is also useful to warm up as a team.  

Activity	Goal	Time (minimum)
Race slow aerobic	Warm muscles	5 minutes
Stretching	Increase range of motion	10 minutes
Soccer drills	Coordination preparation for training / competition	10 minutes