Warming Up

More beneficial than stretching in most cases. Get your muscles warm, blood flowing etc. throughout your body, e.g. a five minute run on a treadmill or the same time on a cross trainer.

If resistance training, also do warm up sets to prepare the muscles for the hard work and stress ahead (use a weight between 50-80% of normal, or in other words between 20-50% lighter).

See: Is it true that … stretching before exercise prevents injury?

Cooling down too?

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Created: 2026-01-14

Last Updated: 2026-01-14