What's your pre-WOD (workout of the day) routine?

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Patrick Vellner · Answer

So for me it's less about a pre-workout and usually before a session, because my sessions are sometimes long and I usually train in the morning. So I'll usually wake up early, have breakfast with my toddler, and have a coffee, and maybe I mix up some pre-workout depending on what I have to do. I'll get to the gym and I spend a fair amount of time now doing some warm-up and activation of whatever I might need. Like if let's say I'm going overhead, I'll spend a fair amount of time getting my shoulders prepped and things like that. A younger me would have just jumped right in, but not anymore. And then yeah, you kind of just get to it and chip along through the day. Sometimes I just put podcasts in and I kind of work through my day slow and steady. For specifically a workout, like if it's a competition workout and I'm trying to like, I don't have any superstitions really, but I might tape my hands a certain way. I don't know, like anybody, I think I get the nervous bathroom emergency before we start. And I still get butterflies and jittery like anybody else. I think that's kind of what's cool after so long of doing it, you still feel that way. And it just sort of shows how much I still care. And I think if I stop feeling that way, and it feels like it doesn't matter and I'm just going through the motions, then maybe it's time to hang it up. But for now, I don't think there's a lot that separates me from the rest of you guys. I think we still feel the same way. And I get nervous just like everybody.

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"What's your pre-WOD (workout of the day) routine?"