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A specific warm-up should follow the general warm-up and stretching routine before any type of intense exercise. The specific warm-up relates to activities specific to your resistance training program or training session. Depending on the exercise, you may to choose to use no weights, or use the bar when performing these exercises that I have listed below. Here are the examples.
- Pressing movements
- Pulling movements
- Arm circles
- Trunk circles
- Overhead squats
- Knee circles
- Squat to a overhead press
- Muscle snatch
- Wrist circles
- Core movements
A cool-down gives the body a period of adjustment from exercise to recovery. You may choose this time to improve flexibility, but more importantly, the cool-down assists in muscular relaxation and promotes the removal of muscular waste products by the blood. Lastly, It also reduces muscular soreness and allows the cardiovascular system to adjust back to it’s normal levels.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I was always wondering about what could have been a specifc warmup! Thanks