Every night (or morning if you're an early riser...and have more guts than I do!) you are doing a workout...whether it be getting your heart really pumping with Hip Hop Abs or Turbo Jam or things like Plyo X, or you're doing Chest and Back, 1on1 Just arms, or Upper Body +, you NEED TO COOL DOWN.
Let me tell you why.
When you're working out and moving and grooving and going hard and giving it all you've got, your heart is pounding. I know you know this but let me just spell it out--it's part of what I'm talking about. When your heart is pounding hard, your blood is flowing faster than when your heart is at rest. When your blood is flowing faster, it flows to your extremities faster. It takes alot of work to get the blood back to your heart from your legs. Since your working hard and your heart is too, this isn't a problem. It can take care of fighting gravity to get the blood from pooling in your legs a bit.
However, when you are working hard and stop suddenly, don't do a cool down ballistic stretch, or a static stretch, your heart actually begins to slow down more quickly than you really want it too. If your heartrate drastically drops, it puts more stress on your heart to keep getting that blood that was needed to flow fast to your legs back to your heart.
Make sense? So no cool down and gradual decrease in the heart rate puts an additional unnecessary stress (not eustress) on your heart.
Your cool down is important! Do it!! don't just go off and get your recovery drink--cool down, then towel off and get your water or recovery drink.
Keep pushing play guys
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