competition warm up

[sportyfam5]

I was just wondering how teams warmed up before competition. By this I mean before they are even allowed to go to their first event. Over the past several years of my girls competing, our team tends to just sit and do a few stretches while other teams are running, handstand pops, flipping ect,

Does anyone (coaches) have a theory as to what works best?
It seems to my husband and me that they should be moving around a little more, waking up muscles, getting heart and lungs going.

 

[nevertooold]

We do the same warm-ups for meets that we do for every practice. Running and then the girls line up and do a modified national team warm-up. If the warm-up time is 20 min. we usually only have time for a few line drills, such as kicks, needle scales, handstand holds, hs hops, etc. If we have a 30 min. warm-up we can usually spend the last 10 min. doing pieces of the beam and floor routines, leap passes, slow tumbling, turns, jumps, etc.

I don't know what really is best, this is just what we do.