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Article #206: Fitness Training - The Importance of Correct Warming Up

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All types of physical practice, in mental stress can be bigger than physical
fitness or any other sport, must begin effort.
with correct warming up. This activity, These two stages of warming up must come
together with relaxation and the main one after the other very strictly. It is
stage, are the three essential parts of forbidden to switch their order, and also
the training. to skip one of them. Unfortunately, it is
The types of warming up can vary a lot in common in sport to skip the first stage
length, intensity and structure of and do just specific warming up, which is
exercises, according to the sport or the considered more important.
training you want to start. Although This is a big mistake, because this type
there are many kinds of warming up, all of exercises does not rise the body
of them have in common two distinct temperature as much as the ones involving
stages. minimum aerobic effort. The result is
The first stage concerns general warming that the body will be much more rigid and
up, whose purpose is to gradually prepare a lot less prepared for the main part of
the whole body for the effort which will the training. There are cases, especially
follow. The body temperature also in sport games, when both stages of
increases. At this stage, the inertia of warming up are abandoned. Kicking the
the body is easily removed through ball or passing a few times are supposed
aerobic exercises (running, cycling, to replace a thorough, but boring warming
etc.). This stage should not take more up.
than 5-10 minutes; otherwise it will Not doing the warming up correctly or,
change into a real aerobic training. It worse, not doing it at all increases the
is well known that during aerobic effort risk of having accidents during training
the body consumes a lot of glycogen, so, or competing. Possible accidents range
especially before force training from simple ones, like pulling a muscle
(anaerobic), there is the risk of running or cramps, to some really bad ones
out of energy. (ruptured muscles, hernia, sprains,
The second stage of warming up is dislocations, etc.). Even if, luckily,
specific to each sport. This stage aims such accidents do not happen, the body
to warm up the main muscles and joints will experience a dramatic decrease of
involved in the effort, but also to efficiency in performing the exercises.
anticipate, by simulation, some movements It is very important for beginners to do
from the main part of the training. This the warming up. If they do not ignore it
stage can be longer than the first one when they take up sport, they will form a
and includes different types of habit of warming up and will, hopefully,
gymnastics for the joints, jumping, keep this habit as long as they do sport.
exercises at greater speed, stretching, They must not assume the false idea that,
etc. However, this stage shouldn't be being beginners, they shouldn't exercise
very long either, because the sportsman so intensely.
needs to save physical energy and to All these problems are traps that correct
avoid mental stress. In many sports warming up can definitely avoid.
(target shooting, fencing, tennis, etc.),






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