The constituent parts of warming up and cooling down.
Warming up should include:
- gradual pulse-raising activity
- stretching
- skill based practices/familiarisation
- mental preparation
- increase amount of oxygen to the working muscles.
Cooling down should include:
- maintaining elevated breathing and heart rate, eg walk, jog
- gradual reduction in intensity
- stretching.
Students
should be taught to understand and justify appropriate elements
of a warm up and a cool down for different sporting
activities.
The benefits of warming up:
- effect on body temperature
- range of movement increased
- gradual increase of effort to full pace
- psychological preparation
- practice of movement skills through the whole range of movement
- injury prevention.
The benefits of cooling down:
- allowing the body to recover
- the removal of lactic acid/CO2/waste products
- prevent (delayed onset) muscle soreness/DOMS.
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