Quote Originally Posted by alleex View Post
Hi

from my understanding there is still alot of debate with regards to warm ups/stretching and injury prevention although most will agree it aids performance. The general consensus is that it is also better to do dynamic stretching before sport/exercise and static after but this is going off the point a little.

Are you able to do non weight bearing or low impact exercise such as cycling, cross trainer or swimming? If you can you could use these as a way of warming up instead of running.
Theoretically yes, but to access the gym every day is pretty difficult for me. I've been suffering from patellar tendinopathy for 2 years now, trying various protocols, and the last time I used the cross trainer, even for 2 minutes, I found that it flared up the symptoms. It has been a while since then, and my symptoms have improved a lot (I get no pain anymore, but my left patellar tendon is greatly enlarged and "solid" compared to my right), so maybe it would be ok now, although I haven't even attempted to up the intensity of my exercise through paranoia and fear given that tendinosis/tendinopathy are so poorly understood still.

I mean, I've been trying to generally move arms around a little bit to warm up, but it seems a little pointless, it isn't exactly heart racing stuff.