A PhD, with the department of exercise science and physical education at State University, agrees. "Warming up implies temperature, but just increasing body temperature does not mean your muscles are ready for intense activity." She supports the practice of moving through the entire range of motion during the warm-up phase of a workout to not only increase muscle temperature, but to also stretch the muscles. Warm-ups are important not only for injury prevention but also for optimal strength and performance. Powerlifters and strength trainers alike lift light weights and thoroughly warm up before going heavy. Whether you''re bodybuilding, doing aerobics, swimming, mountain-biking, rock climbing or even doing yoga, your mind and body benefit significantly by warming up, enhancing both your enjoyment of the experience and the results.

For all types of exercise, your warm-up activities should: Take each of the joints through full range of motion. Increase body temperature. Get you psychologically tuned to what your body will be doing. Physiological reasons for warming up. Warm-ups help the body and its muscles to perform more effectively by: Slowly increasing muscle temperature. Serving as a dry run, which alerts the individual to potential musculoskeletal and other problems that may occur at higher intensity. Reducing the risk of exercise-related heart problems by increasing coronary blood flow. Improving the elasticity of soft tissues. Preventing early lactic-acid buildup and fatigue. Stimulating motor units of the muscles in preparation for a heavier workload.

In no time, you will be the one who gets noticed, be it work, family and socially. Savings: The money you save by doing a home exercise program is substantial compared to costly gyms and trainers. Wouldn’t you rather use the savings for new clothes, family-time and home rather than fatten’ someone else’s wallet. Fitness is affordable to all. You don’t have to overpay for the privilege of fitness. From the moment the instructor pops a cassette into the stereo, the music is loud. Very loud. So loud that the room can barely contain it. A glass wall shakes violently and the wood floor bounces up and down. The first notes out of the speakers quote a ’70s funk anthem, but the song has merely been sampled for its recognizable hook. In this version, the beat is more emphatic, the bass nearly subsonic.