Before any intense exercise you should start with a warm up.
What a warm up does is get your blood flowing around the body to the muscles preparing it for the core workout, warming and limbering joints and soft tissue ready for the harder stuff.
Warm ups don't have to be intense and only 5-10 minutes long of movement activities. Depending on your fitness level will depend on the duration and intensity of a warm up, the fitter you are the more intensity & longer duration you'll need. The less fit you are the less intense and less duration you'll need.
Warm ups can be any thing from a walk to a run, movements that imitate an activity in your workout, for example: if you are Bench Pressing in your workout a warm up might be push ups or bench press with just the bar if that's a lighter weight you use. If you Leg press, warm up may be body weight squats. etc.
You can perform mobility exercises in your warm up.
There are examples of these in this section you can follow.
The main objective of a warm up is to prepare your body for a workout so there is less risk of injury during the workout.
For example, have you ever tried to sprint when you're cold or haven't been active, you're muscles feel tight and stiff, when warmed up it's much easier to sprint, the muscles have loosened.
What a warm up does is get your blood flowing around the body to the muscles preparing it for the core workout, warming and limbering joints and soft tissue ready for the harder stuff.
Warm ups don't have to be intense and only 5-10 minutes long of movement activities. Depending on your fitness level will depend on the duration and intensity of a warm up, the fitter you are the more intensity & longer duration you'll need. The less fit you are the less intense and less duration you'll need.
Warm ups can be any thing from a walk to a run, movements that imitate an activity in your workout, for example: if you are Bench Pressing in your workout a warm up might be push ups or bench press with just the bar if that's a lighter weight you use. If you Leg press, warm up may be body weight squats. etc.
You can perform mobility exercises in your warm up.
There are examples of these in this section you can follow.
The main objective of a warm up is to prepare your body for a workout so there is less risk of injury during the workout.
For example, have you ever tried to sprint when you're cold or haven't been active, you're muscles feel tight and stiff, when warmed up it's much easier to sprint, the muscles have loosened.