Getting heart rate up ready to exercise. Including different exercises to stretch muscles whilst they do so.
Make a big area and spread loads of cones same colour or multi colour cones right way up and upside down. 1. Split players into two teams. 2. 1 team is upside down cones and the other team is the right way up cones. 3. In a minute or whatever time you like they have to try and change the cones to their way. 4. Change the stipulations to make it a warm up and can include stretching. STIPULATIONS -Walking -Jogging -Running -Backwards -Jumping -Hoping -Skipping -Crab Walking -Lunging -TipToes -Heal Walks -Bear Crawls -Tiger Walks -Duck Walking -Tower of Power -Squat Jumping -Dynamic Stretches
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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