How can you get ready for Exercising

Any sudden strenuous exercise is not good for the heart or any other muscle. A warm-up exercise is necessary because it increases the blood flow to the heart. This gets heart ready for vigorous exercise. So, there is a need to prepare the body in a specific way before exercise. A 5 minute period of easy exercises that prepare body muscles to work hard is called a warm-up exercise. A warm-up exercise is as much necessary for exercise as preparation for a class test before build up little by little, the need that muscles have for oxygen. Slow stretching as a part of warm-up also helps get muscles ready to work. It gets joints moving. One should not try to jerk or bounce while doing worm-up exercise because it can harm muscles. Instead of it move slowly and hold one stretching position for about five to ten seconds. In the same way after hard exercise cool-down is also necessary. Stretching and doing other slow movements for five minutes after vigorous exercise acts as a cool-down. A cool-down is a way to slowly stop exercising. Warm-up exercise can be used for cool-down, but it should be done fewer times as compare to warm-up exercises. It lets muscles slowly relax as heart rate returns to normal and a large amount of blood that has gone into large muscles returns to normal and large muscles returns to the heart. Warm-up and cool-down exercises are necessary to make exercise healthful and safe.