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Don’t forget to warm-up
your heart!

Posted December 30th, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb

Section: Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise

running-stride.jpgMost people know that you have to warm up skeletal muscles to help protect them from injury, but many do not know that warming up the heart muscle also helps to prevent heart attacks in people with blocked arteries leading to the heart

Before you try to run very fast, you can protect your muscles from injury by performing a series of runs of gradually-increasing intensity to increase the circulation of blood to your muscles.

The same principle applies to the heart.
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