PUEBLO, Colo. – 2018 Rookie of the Year Keyshawn Whitehorse turned on his wireless headphones and moseyed to the hallway outside of the locker room at The Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.

He began to run in place, jacking his knees up high and close to his chest. He then next started to lunge back and forth before erupting into a series of jumping jacks and other exercises.

The 21-year-old was going through his normal event night, dynamic warm-up routine. For about 15 minutes, Whitehorse will go through a series of minor exercises to get his blood flowing throughout his muscle groups, firing up his nervous system.

“Very helpful,” Whitehorse said. “It makes my mind and body warmed up, ready to react. Just kind of like warming the tires up before a race.”

Whitehorse will put himself through a dynamic warm-up inside the Videotron Centre in Quebec City on Saturday night in preparation for the PBR Canada 2019 Monster Energy Tour Canadian Iron Cowboy, presented by Super Sagamie.

Fans can watch the International Major event on RidePass beginning at 7 p.m. ET.

“First Canadian event I’ve been to,” Whitehorse said. “Just loving this life being able to travel to get on bulls all over this little blue planet.”

It may seem like a simple and commonsense approach, but many bull riders fail to put themselves through a dynamic warm-up on competition night.

PBR Sports Medicine Director and head athletic trainer Rich Blyn hopes that bull riders will become more receptive to the idea of a dynamic warm-up in the future.

“What we want to try and do with these guys is get them all doing a dynamic workout,” Blyn said. “There is several reasons why. No. 1 is most of these guys come from the school where they want to lay on a table and get stretched. That really doesn’t prepare them to ride because they are doing something static. They need to be doing something movement-oriented.

“When you ride a bull, you have to constantly move forward. You have to move forward, you have to move ahead, you have to move your feet. You have to move.”

Blyn has over 30 years of experience in the business and has been leading the PBR sports medicine team since 1995. The PBR sports medicine team offers the best care at every Unleash The Beast event and offers rehab, training and recovery programs for its bull riders to perform while at home or on the road.

The PBR Sport Performance Center (SPC) in Pueblo, Colorado, which officially opened on Friday, will be an additional resource for bull riders, and athletes of all sports, to continue to learn of ways to become better athletes.

The SPC aims to be an incubator for future bull riders, other Western sports athletes, and amateur and professional athletes across a range of sports who will participate in extensive fitness, nutrition, training and recovery programs utilizing advanced equipment and technology.

Dynamic warm-ups will be something that Blyn will talk to Antwon Burton – the executive director of the PBR Sport Performance Center – about having bull riders focus on.

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“The biggest issue we have with bull riders is they will come to you and tell you they don’t want to do that because they want to ride and don’t want to wear themselves out,” Blyn said. “What they have to realize is the duration that they are on that bull for is an 8-second duration.

“If you look at a professional hockey player, the night of a game, they will do a morning skate. They will be at the arena three hours before the game. They will work out in a dynamic fashion for probably an hour to an hour-and-a-half. They will get out there and do a 20 or 30-minute warm-up on the ice before the game. Then they will actually play the game and nobody is worn out for the game.”

Blyn put Kaique Pacheco through a dynamic warm-up last year during the 2018 PBR World Finals to help him try to overcome torn ligaments in his left knee suffered just days before at the Velocity Tour Finals.

Pacheco went on to begin the World Finals 2-for-2 and would eventually win the 2018 PBR World Championship.

“Typically we would want to do a dynamic warm-up 30 minutes before its time for them to ride,” Blyn said. “There are some guys that have done it and done it with some great success.”

Burton made sure to put Ezekiel Mitchell through a dynamic warm-up on Thursday at the SPC. Mitchell is the first bull rider to train at the state-of-the art, 18,000 square-foot center under Burton’s watchful eye.

“It’s cool,” Mitchell said of the SPC. “The setup is pretty freaking cool. It is a beautiful place. I am not much of a gym person in a sense, but this place definitely makes you want to come and work out and get better. It is just cool to be here.”

Blyn explained that dynamic warm-ups offer a variety of benefits on both the physical and mental side of the game.

“Not only does it prepare you physically, but it prepares you mentally,” Blyn said. “Now they can start to mentally prepare for what they are about to do. They start to think about what they are actually here for. That all goes on during that.

“Every sport in the world now has athletes going through a dynamic warm-up. So that is what we want to try to do. Not only will it help them in terms of their riding and being more prepared, but it will help reduce injuries because their bodies are now prepared what they are about to do.”

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