Assessment of effectiveness of sports massage in supporting of warm-up

part of sports training, because prepare the body for exercises and minimize the risk of injury. The aim of this study was assess the effectiveness of two types of warm-up: aerobic exercises and exercises with sports massage (before). Material and Methods: The research covered 59 women. All of them did fitness tests two times. Each test was preceded by a different form of warm-up (aerobic exercises, exercises with massage). For examined the differences t-Student test was used. Results: Warm-up with massage had positive effect for fitness level. More effective was exercises preceded by massage – differences in results (after the standard warm-up and warm-up with massage) in every tests were significant (p<0.001). Conclusion: Alternative form of warm-up can be effective way to preparing the body for exercises and make the training more attractive