Warm up essentials: Balance and co-ordination

By Huw Davies
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Get your body and mind on the same wavelength with these dynamic stretches from Tony Daley, head of first team performance at Wolves

Once you've gone through your preliminary warm up, it's time to take the body another step closer to game time with dynamic stretches.

Mimicking the movements you might expect to experience in a game, will sharpen your balance and co-ordination before kick off.

"When you get to this stage, after preparing the body, exercises become quicker, higher intensity and a greater range of movement," Daley told FFT.

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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.