Warm up and cool down

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The importance of a warm up

For every sport you should always warm up the main reasons for this is so you don't get injured, improves your speed and muscle contraction and gets your mind is in the mood. for this to happen you need to:

Warm up your muscles

Get oxygen flowing around your body quicker by raising your heart rate

pick up your breathing

In order for this all to happen it needs to be set up effectively, this would include:

Pulse raiser

dynamic stretches

static stretches

Importance of a cool down

The cool down is also important for your body to do in order to get an effective training strategy. The main reasons for a participant to do a cool down is so that your less likely to get sore muscles and to cool down your body. To complete this you need to:

Do a light jog and stretches

This is so your oxygen can more effectively be flushed through your muscle tissue which helps to reduce lactic acid, in addition decreases risk of injury or pulling a muscle. Overall you should gradually decrease heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and breathing rate which will therefore stop you from feeling dizzy, faint or sick also makes you calm down.