Female Warm Up Exercises

You must warm up for getting started with your physical exercise session. Warming up is important part of your daily exercise routine, but sometimes you overlook this part. Warming up prepares your body for your workout program. It is light exercising session prior to the main activity or exercise session. Warm up exercises helps preparing your body muscles and activating your energy systems for a particular activity. These exercises are often done before all physical and sporting activities. There are numerous benefits of your warming up exercises.

Physically, your warm ups cause the release of adrenaline or epinephrine that is a "fight or flight" hormone. The hormone is released from the adrenal glands in the danger or stress situations. It prepares your body for action in danger or stress situation. The hormone increases the supply of oxygen and energy-giving glucose to your brain and muscles. Your warmer activities increase your heart rate, enable oxygen to travel with greater speed and higher volume in your blood, cause increased production of synovial fluid located between the joints to reduce friction, allow your joints to move more efficiently, and cause dilation of capillaries.

Your warm up exercises help to increase the temperature in your muscles and decrease viscosity of blood. They help to boost up your muscle metabolism and the speed of nerve impulse conduction, which help making you act more energetically. They help to catalyze enzyme activities, encourage the dissociation of oxygen from hemoglobin, decrease viscosity within the muscle, increase extensibility and elasticity of muscle fibers, and increment force and speed of contraction. Psychologically, warm ups may help to boost your morale before the main activity. They help preparing you mentally for the main event.

You can do warming up exercises in three stages. In the first stage, you can do some light exercises to increase you heart rate that result in speedy delivery of oxygen to the muscles and raised temperature of your body. You may do cardiovascular exercise, such as jogging to increase the heart rate of your body. In the second stage, you may do mobility or stretching exercises. These exercises help triggering up your muscle metabolism that makes you more energetic. You may do press-ups, lunges and squat thrusts in the second stage. In the final stage, you may to do some activities based on main activity; for instance, if you are warming up to play basketball, you may practice throwing the ball through the hoop, or if you are warming up to play soccer, you may practice kicking a ball to your teammate or goalkeeper.

And, if you are warming up for physical workout program, you may do some light exercises related to your main workout program. It is really-really important that you warm up properly before your strength or fitness program. You may do light sets of exercises for getting into mood for your exercise program. Warming up really help you psyching up for your workouts, and more importantly, it helps preventing the injuries to your muscles. You may really get your muscles by going directly for your physical workout program or sports activity without warming up properly. Exercising without warming up your muscles properly may cause serious injuries to your muscles. Thus, warming up is very vital before all types of physical activates.