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Prevent injury and improve performance by increasing the intensity of your warm-up
Posted March 6th, 2007 at 10:37 AM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise
Warming up before you exercise helps to prevent injuries and lets you jump higher, run faster, lift heavier or throw further.
Your warm-up should involve the same muscles and motions you plan to use in your sport. For example, before you start to run very fast, do a series of runs of gradually-increasing intensity to increase the circulation of blood to the muscles you will be using.
Muscles are made up of millions of individual fibers, just like a rope made from many threads. When you start to exercise at a very slow pace, you increase the blood flow to muscle fibers, increase their temperature, and bring in more oxygen, so the muscles are more pliable and resistant to injury.
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Effects of alcohol on your performance & health
Posted January 1st, 2007 at 3:30 PM by Jonathan Faccone
Section: Running & Training, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
There are many studies that demonstrate alcohol’s negative effects on health and physical performance, but the good news is that avoiding it may not be the best idea either.
Believe it or not, athletes used to consume alcohol prior to competition to improve performance. The thinking behind this idea is that alcohol could alter energy metabolism, improve physiological processes, or modify psychological factors to help the athlete. Unfortunately this idea no longer holds as more research is demonstrating that alcohol by no means should be considered a performance-enhancing supplement.
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How to Warm Up
Posted October 22nd, 2006 at 5:56 PM by Martin Kennedy
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Exercise
Warming up before you exercise helps to prevent injuries and lets you jump higher, run faster, lift heavier or throw further. Your warm-up should involve the same muscles and motions you plan to use in your sport.
For example, before you start to run very fast, do a series of runs of gradually-increasing intensity to increase the circulation of blood to the muscles you will be using.
Muscles are made up of millions of individual fibers, just like a rope made from many threads. When you start to exercise at a very slow pace, you increase the blood flow to muscle fibers, increase their temperature, and bring in more oxygen, so the muscles are more pliable and resistant to injury.
When you contract a muscle for the first time, you use less than one percent of your muscle fibers. The second time you bring in more fibers, and you keep on increasing the number of muscle fibers used in each contraction for several minutes of using that muscle.
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