After you exercise, the most important thing is to cool down to avoid any injuries.
Cooling down means that you gradually slow down your level of intensity.
The reason we warm up is to get the mind and body ready for what is going to happen before we exercise, therefore avoiding injury again.
Cooling down means the opposite, letting the body recover after a good workout! When we do cool down, you help your heart and lungs return to normal pre-exercise.
After an intense workout, cooling down helps lessen any pain may have incurred during your exercise routine.
When we exercise, our bodies go through several stressful processes.
Muscle fibres, ligaments and tendons all undergo a great deal of strain during exercise.
A proper cool down enables the body to eliminate toxins such as lactic acid, which builds up in our bodies during intense and vigorous activity.
It will also help to release any stresses that our bodies may have endured.
The soreness we feel after exercising is called Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness.
This is what we feel the day after we exercise, and cooling down can help us with this.
When you don't cool down, and just stop exercising, the blood just suddenly stops and the build up of lactic acid stays in the muscles and causes them to swell and become painful.
By cooling down it helps return the blood to the heart, thus helping to relieve the muscles of the lactic acid.
The blood then carries new oxygen and required nutrients to the muscles, ligaments and tendons, to aid in their repair.
In order to fully restore the circulatory system after strenuous exercise, there is a three part program to follow.
First, do a few easy and gentle exercises, to keep the blood flow to the muscles, and to help remove the built up lactic acid.
Follow that with a gentle stretching routine.
Each of the muscle groups that came into play during the workout should be stretched for approximately 8-15 seconds and muscles that feel a little tighter should be stretched a little longer.
Lastly, the body needs fuel to replace the nutrients that burned up during exercise.
There are many products available on the market that claim to have the right proportions of nutrients to speed up your recovery.
And...
don't forget to drink plenty of water to rehydrate your cells.
A good cool down is just as important as a good warm up before your exercise, and together they can positively enhance the effects of your routine.
Cooling down means that you gradually slow down your level of intensity.
The reason we warm up is to get the mind and body ready for what is going to happen before we exercise, therefore avoiding injury again.
Cooling down means the opposite, letting the body recover after a good workout! When we do cool down, you help your heart and lungs return to normal pre-exercise.
After an intense workout, cooling down helps lessen any pain may have incurred during your exercise routine.
When we exercise, our bodies go through several stressful processes.
Muscle fibres, ligaments and tendons all undergo a great deal of strain during exercise.
A proper cool down enables the body to eliminate toxins such as lactic acid, which builds up in our bodies during intense and vigorous activity.
It will also help to release any stresses that our bodies may have endured.
The soreness we feel after exercising is called Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness.
This is what we feel the day after we exercise, and cooling down can help us with this.
When you don't cool down, and just stop exercising, the blood just suddenly stops and the build up of lactic acid stays in the muscles and causes them to swell and become painful.
By cooling down it helps return the blood to the heart, thus helping to relieve the muscles of the lactic acid.
The blood then carries new oxygen and required nutrients to the muscles, ligaments and tendons, to aid in their repair.
In order to fully restore the circulatory system after strenuous exercise, there is a three part program to follow.
First, do a few easy and gentle exercises, to keep the blood flow to the muscles, and to help remove the built up lactic acid.
Follow that with a gentle stretching routine.
Each of the muscle groups that came into play during the workout should be stretched for approximately 8-15 seconds and muscles that feel a little tighter should be stretched a little longer.
Lastly, the body needs fuel to replace the nutrients that burned up during exercise.
There are many products available on the market that claim to have the right proportions of nutrients to speed up your recovery.
And...
don't forget to drink plenty of water to rehydrate your cells.
A good cool down is just as important as a good warm up before your exercise, and together they can positively enhance the effects of your routine.