ly glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentratWhy do warm ups at all?

Warm ups prepare the mind and body in anticipation of increased physical activity. They will generally affect the workings of all the systems of the body, flood the tissues with blood in preparation of a greater work load. Warm ups and cool downs aren’t just for the professional athlete. Any person who does sport or exercises needs them, including children to avoid injuries now and into the future.

A general warm up should consist of 5 full minutes of either walking, with 2 minutes of slow walking, progressing to 2 minutes of fast walking, with 1 minute of slower then fast walking again. Alternatively, on those dreary outside weather days, running on the spot, again broken down into the above 3 components, but for only one minute each. Jogging is not recommended due to the stress put on the joints of the feet, ankles, knees, hips and low back.

Combine slow arm pumps graduating into full forward punch moves with both the walking or the running. Again slowing down with the last minute of activity. Should running on the spot aggravate the lower back, try this. Lean forward, supporting yourself with your arms to the back of a chair and then run on the spot. Do for 3 minutes obeying the slow/fast/and slower rule, and another 2 minutes with upper body arm moves while actively moving around the room.

Now into your exercise program. Again, each exercise should begin with a few slow and incomplete renditions of the exercise you are about to do before ‘going for it’. This is important whether you are about to do an aerobic program or a stretching program. As you complete your exercises we again do the ‘warm ups’ but now they are now going to be called ‘cooling down’.

You need at least another 5 minutes to cool down. Cooling down allows the body to gently glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentrat

hould consist of 5 full minutes of either walking, with 2 minutes of slow walking, progressing to 2 minutes of fast walking, with 1 minute of slower then fast walking again. Alternatively, on those dreary outside weather days, running on the spot, again broken down into the above 3 components, but for only one minute each. Jogging is not recommended due to the stress put on the joints of the feet, ankles, knees, hips and low back.

Combine slow arm pumps graduating into full forward punch moves with both the walking or the running. Again slowing down with the last minute of activity. Should running on the spot aggravate the lower back, try this. Lean forward, supporting yourself with your arms to the back of a chair and then run on the spot. Do for 3 minutes obeying the slow/fast/and slower rule, and another 2 minutes with upper body arm moves while actively moving around the room.

Now into your exercise program. Again, each exercise should begin with a few slow and incomplete renditions of the exercise you are about to do before ‘going for it’. This is important whether you are about to do an aerobic program or a stretching program. As you complete your exercises we again do the ‘warm ups’ but now they are now going to be called ‘cooling down’.

You need at least another 5 minutes to cool down. Cooling down allows the body to gently glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentrat

pumps graduating into full forward punch moves with both the walking or the running. Again slowing down with the last minute of activity. Should running on the spot aggravate the lower back, try this. Lean forward, supporting yourself with your arms to the back of a chair and then run on the spot. Do for 3 minutes obeying the slow/fast/and slower rule, and another 2 minutes with upper body arm moves while actively moving around the room.

Now into your exercise program. Again, each exercise should begin with a few slow and incomplete renditions of the exercise you are about to do before ‘going for it’. This is important whether you are about to do an aerobic program or a stretching program. As you complete your exercises we again do the ‘warm ups’ but now they are now going to be called ‘cooling down’.

You need at least another 5 minutes to cool down. Cooling down allows the body to gently glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentrat

o your exercise program. Again, each exercise should begin with a few slow and incomplete renditions of the exercise you are about to do before ‘going for it’. This is important whether you are about to do an aerobic program or a stretching program. As you complete your exercises we again do the ‘warm ups’ but now they are now going to be called ‘cooling down’.

You need at least another 5 minutes to cool down. Cooling down allows the body to gently glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentrat

ly glide to a halt rather than slamming on the brakes. Popular literature seems to indicate that cooling down may prevent the muscular soreness which often follows exercise. More and more scientific sources indicate that this may not be so. Regardless of this debate, cooling down is still valuable. It is a valuable exercise for the heart allowing it to return to its normal heartbeat. It also helps avoid a drop in blood pressure as a result of concentration of the blood in the larger muscles when one suddenly stops arduous exercise. And that is why we do warm ups and cool downs.