The warm up exercises are crucial to any sports or fitness training program. The importance of a structured warm up routine should not be under estimated when it comes to preventing sports injury. A proper warm up has a number of very important key elements. Theses elements, or parts, should all work together to minimize the likelihood the muscles loose, supple and pliable. WHY WARM UP ? Warming up prior to any physical activity does a number of beneficial things, but primarily its main purpose is to prepare the body and mind for strenuous activity. One of the ways it achieves this is by increasing the bodys core temperature, while also increasing the bodys muscle temperature. By increasing muscle temperature youre helping to make the muscle the muscle loose, supple and pliable. An effective warm up also has the effective of increasing both your heart rate and your respiratory rate. This increases blood flow, which in turn increases the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles. All this helps to prepare the muscles, tendons and joints for more strenuous activity. Keeping in mind the aims or goals of an effective warm up, we can then go on to look at the warm up should be structured. Cheers :)
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:56:53 +0000