What Is the Most Effective Cycling Warm Up? The Science
Channel: Dylan Johnson
Date: 2020-04-26

Does warming up actually improve your performance and what is the most effective warm up strategy? I dive into the science on these questions as well as address warming up in hot and cold conditions and whether or not you should be stretching during your warm up. 

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Studies I used in this video: 
https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2005/05000/Effects_of_Prior_Warm_up_Regime_on.19.aspx

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2013/02000/Reducing_Muscle_Temperature_Drop_after_Warm_up.20.aspx

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00253.2011

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-011-2262-z

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2010.01248.x

https://cdn.journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2010/01000/Effects_of_Warming_up_on_Physical_Performance__A.21.aspx

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2005/09000/Effect_of_Warm_Up_on_Cycle_Time_Trial_Performance.22.aspx

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2012.01444.x

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2011.01327.x

https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00979.2003