"Any irritation momentary or not, leaves traces in the nervous system."-Y. V. Verkhoshansky
"The warm-up serves to bring the sportsman's organism to the necessary work capacity. The warm-up has two parts--general and special. The purpose of the general is to raise the functional potential of the organism as a whole; the purpose of the special part is to establish the most optimal interrelationship between the structure and the forthcoming movement and the activities of the C.N.S."-Y. V. Verkhoshansky