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Summary: To warm up before a run, jog for 20 minutes, stretch out the legs and do a series of leg drills, like butt kicks, high-knee skips and leg crossovers. Warm up the body sufficiently before a long run to loosen the muscles with tips from a running coach and certified sports trainer in this free video on running.

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By Samuel Harvell
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Samuel Harvell is a fitness trainer and experienced running coach. Not only has he competed in more than 30 marathons and hundreds of shorter distance races, Harvell also knows how to...read more

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"Hello, my name is Samuel Harvell, and I'm a personal trainer and running coach. And today, what I'm going to do is show you a series of leg drills that you would do before doing the actual workout, say, here on the track. And the process is you would go for, say, maybe a 15 or 20 minute jog to get your body warmed up, do some stretching afterwards, and do a series of what are called leg drills. The leg drills are...is an extension of the actual warm up. And so one of the first forms of leg drills is called the butt kicks. You have your hands to your side, and you're bringing your feet up like this, and you're going for about 30 steps forward and then you would turn around and go 30 steps forward again. So you would do that two times. Another drill is called the high knee skip, and it's similar to when you're skipping as a child, sort of like this. For the high knee skip, you want to get your knees up higher and you want to have an exaggeration with your arm motion. Getting your arms up, up, up, up like that. The next drill is called the leg crossover, and you would start with bringing your left leg over, then the right, then the left, then the right, and then back. Okay? You would do a count of, say, 15 going forward, and then 15 coming back. So for more information on the running drills I've just shown you, you can go to www.harvellfitnesstraining.com. That's H-A-R-V-E-L-L-fitness-training-dot-com. Thank you."

eHow Article: How to Warm Up Before a Run