30 Badminton Warm Up & Cool Down Exercises

This video shows you effective badminton warm up exercises that helps you perform to the best of your ability and most importantly, reduce the risk of injury! Cool down is also equally important to aid recovery and again reduce the risk of injury. Injury free = able to enjoy badminton long term. There is also a section on shoulder and rotator cuff warm up exercises to help activate your shoulder and get it ready to play some badminton Here are a list of example exercises and more in the video! Warm up Exercises + Dynamic Stretches - Gentle jog - done to increase heart rate - Side steps - uses a different set of muscles to the ones used for walking forwards, strengthens underused muscles and helps with balance - Chassé - badminton related, preparing required muscles for quick changes in direction - High knees - works abdominals, important to increase stability - Kick backs - full leg work out, strengthens glutes and hamstrings, important muscles for badminton - Lunges - reduces asymmetry, corrects imbalances in muscles, increases balance, coordination, core, hips, glutes, increases range of motion - Grapevine/ karaoke - helps with quick feet, fast movement on court, agility - Sprint - change of pace, raising heart rate - Dynamic Stretches, leg swing, swivel arms, improves speed agility and acceleration, etc - Open/ close gate, hip flexibility Cool down and static stretches - Gentle jog, safely lower heart rate