When preparing for any kind of exercise, whether it’s cardio, soccer, or weight training, we can all benefit from warming up. It’s super important to give yourself a few minutes to allow your muscles to ease into the exercise mode.

Before starting your training session you want to incorporate 5-10 minutes of dynamic warm-up. Dynamic warm-up mainly focuses on actions similar to the movements that you will be doing during your workout. For example, walking lunges and leg swings are dynamic exercises for leg day. This will increase your muscle temperature to prevent injury and help build strength, mobility and coordination to improve your workout performance.

On the other hand to cool down you want to be doing static stretches. Static stretching is where you hold a stretch for an extended period of time while keeping your body still – such as lying hamstring stretch and hip flexor stretches. This helps to lengthen and loosen your muscles and connective tissue after an intense session and help increase your range of motion and flexibility. Moreover, cooling down will help remove the lactic acid building in your bloodstream returning the body to resting state.

Have a wonderful week my friends, hope this helps!