Warm up essentials: Skipping

By Huw Davies
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Get the blood flowing around your body and brain with this skipping drill from Tony Daley, Wolves' head of first team performance

Skipping is a useful warm up exercise to get the brain and body working. In changing the direction of where they body is moving, as well as getting the arms going, it stimulates and focuses a player's minds.

“Football’s not just a straight sport where you’re moving in one direction,” says Tony Daley, Wolverhampton Wanderers’ head of first team performance.

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Huw Davies

Huw was on the FourFourTwo staff from 2009 to 2015, ultimately as the magazine's Managing Editor, before becoming a freelancer and moving to Wales. As a writer, editor and tragic statto, he still contributes regularly to FFT in print and online, though as a match-going #WalesAway fan, he left a small chunk of his brain on one of many bus journeys across France in 2016.