Contents:
- Medical Video: 6 Things You Should Never Do After Eating
- Is that warming up?
- What is the effect if you don't warm up before exercise?
- 1. Increase the risk of injury
- 2. Reducing performance
- 3. You are not ready to do sports
Medical Video: 6 Things You Should Never Do After Eating
Like sports? Don't forget to warm up first. Many people say that warming up before exercise is very important. If not, you are more at risk of getting injured while exercising. In addition, warming up before exercise is also useful to improve your performance during sports.
Indeed, what actually happens to your body when it warms up? Why is that important?
Is that warming up?
As the name implies, warm up is an activity carried out before exercise to help increase your body temperature. This helps to prepare the body or make the body adapt to the sports activities that you will do, so that the body is not 'shocked' during sports.
Warming can help speed up your heart rate and breathing, so the blood flow that is rich in nutrients and oxygen that your muscles need when exercising can flow smoothly. A good warm-up session takes place within 5-10 minutes
Activities carried out during warm-up are what make all major muscle groups move, such as cardiovascular exercises combined with stretching. Cardiovascular exercise can help improve blood circulation, increase body temperature, and increase heart rate. Meanwhile, stretching exercises are done to prepare muscles before exercising. You can do road movements in place while swinging your arms as simple heating.
What is the effect if you don't warm up before exercise?
Not warming up before exercising can cause you injury. This injury can occur at a mild to severe level. Not only that, not warming up before exercise can also lead to other things that harm you, like the following.
1. Increase the risk of injury
How can injuries occur? Muscle injury can occur when muscles get too much pressure, usually when stretched under pressure such as when lowering heavy loads. Injury can occur because the muscle does not produce enough strength to support itself or because the muscles do not contract at the right time to make certain movements.
This can be caused because the blood flowing to the muscles does not provide energy for the muscles to carry out their activities. Why so? Not enough to warm up before exercise can result in less blood flow to the muscles, so that the muscles are less ready to provide energy to do movements when you exercise.
2. Reducing performance
Warming up can help prepare your body slowly before exercise. This can gradually improve blood circulation and heart rate, so that the joints loosen and the blood flow that the muscles receive increases. This makes your body more ready to do sports, even more energy reserves in the muscles are available to support muscles when exercising. So that your performance while doing sports can be more awake.
It's different if you don't warm up before exercising. You may feel fatigued faster so that you reduce your performance while exercising.
3. You are not ready to do sports
In terms of mentality, people who do not warm up are usually not ready to do sports, especially heavy exercise or done for a long time. Warming up is a good opportunity for you to prepare yourself mentally before a sports match. Besides increasing blood flow to muscles and joints, warming also increases blood flow to the brain, which helps in increasing focus and alertness when exercising.
