Skipping a warm up is a big mistake,not only from a preventing an injury stand point but also a performance one!
A good warm up loosens the synovail fluid in between your joints,you have to to stop your bones grinding on bones which as you an probably imagine would not be pleasant!
This fluid is a bit like egg yolk and when warming up it increases the lubrication of your joints and improves your flexibility,just think when you get out of bed in the early afternoon and feel like a corpse until you have moved around a little and then are ready to bitch slap the day!
A good warm up will prepare your cardiovascular system ready for that workout you picked out of one of those men's health magazines you have stashed away gathering dust.
The warm up will get your blood pumping faster,getting oxygen to your muscles faster which will improve your bodies ability to deal with lactic acid build up!
Nerve messages will also increase when you are warmed up to enhance your already cat like reflexes reducing the chance of getting injured.
You should focus your warm up on the joints you are going to use,there is little point warm up your shoulders if all you are going to be busting put some body weight lunges.
Your warm up should last about 10 minutes with the aim of increasing your body temperature a couple of degrees so if you start to sweat a bit and feel warm then your warm up has succeeded!
But don't rest on your laurels too longer! You need to get on with your main workout within a few minutes of completing your warm other wise your hard work will be for nothing!
So if you are hitting the gym or attempting a new page in the karma sutraa make sure you warm up!
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