Avoiding Sports Injuries
Why you should warm up:
- Raises your heart rate to prepare your body for physical exertion
- Speeds up nerve impulses which improves your reflexes
- Reduces muscle tension
- Sends oxygenated blood to your muscles
- Reduces your risk of injury and prevents tissue damage
- Increases your flexibility and joint mobility
Why you should cool down:
- Helps to gently return your heart rate, breathing and blood pressure to normal
- Improves your flexibility
- Reduces your risk of injury
- Removes naturally occurring waste products from muscles and helps reduce your risk of soreness
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