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 For all types of exercise, your warm-up activities should: Take each of the joints through full range of motion. Increase walkerobics body temperature. Get you psychologically tuned to what your body will be doing. Physiological reasons for warming up. Warm-ups help the body and its muscles to perform more effectively by: Slowly increasing muscle temperature. Serving as a dry run, which alerts the individual to potential musculoskeletal and other problems that may occur at higher intensity. Reducing the risk of exercise-related heart problems by increasing coronary blood flow. Improving the elasticity of soft tissues. Preventing early lactic-acid buildup and fatigue. Stimulating motor units of the muscles in preparation for a heavier workload. Use very walkerobics light weight and high walkerobics reps for the first set of each bodypart worked. (Begin with 25% of one-rep max and use strict form.) Slowly increase the weight used over the course of your workout, pyramiding up to the heaviest amount. For a cardio workout, your warm-up should: increase your heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen consumption, walkerobics dilation walkerobics of blood vessels, joint lubrication and muscle and tendon elasticity. It should also include: Low-level aerobic activity that uses the same muscle groups and similar movement patterns that will be used during the main workout. Static stretches for all major muscles walkerobics and walkerobics groups, especially the lower body. The top 10 activities that don''t count as warm-ups. Some of the following ideas may be incorporated into your warm-up, but none should be used as the sole activity when preparing for higher intensity exercise. What counts "The idea is simple. A muscle in a resting state has a certain length. Warming up improves the ability to move the muscle through its entire range of motion without injury. While warmth applied to the outside of the body warms the skin and parts of the muscles close to the skin''s surface, it doesn''t effectively warm the muscles, particularly the deep-seated muscles and tendons." Walk into shape with our exercise videos, tapes, and books. We have fun exercises that almost anyone can do! Stop by our online health and fitness video store. It's time to get moving...and walking! We even have special videos for pregnancy, children, and seniors.
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