subject: How To Cool Down And Relax After Exercise [print this page] Everyone has started exercising now daysEveryone has started exercising now days. More people are hitting the gym than ever now. You could say that everyone now wants to fight the battle against obesity and other unhealthy conditions. This is because people have slowly started realizing the importance of physical exercising and are somehow finding time out of their busy schedule to exercise for at least an hour daily. This has slowly started increasing the number of fit people in the world, but there are problems arising because of the fact that most people are not exercising in the right way. This makes them lose energy very easily, as a result of which they get tired too fast, but that is not their biggest problem.
If people exercise in the wrong way, they tend to grow muscles in very awkward shapes and sizes. This happens when your exercise is not able to target the right muscle. The biggest problem that arises due to exercising the wrong way is getting chronic muscle injuries. If these injuries are not taken care of in time or if you do not start exercising properly, hey could end up doing some permanent damage to you.
There is good chance of you getting injuries even if you exercise properly. This happens due to the fact that, while most people are aware of warm ups, very few are aware of the concept of cool downs. Most people tend to carry on with their daily routines once their exercises have been over. This is where they make their mistake. After they are done with their intense workouts they should be doing some cooling down exercising so that they can bring the body back to normal.
At this point, some people may ask that why are cooling down exercises necessary. They are necessary because of many reasons. Firstly, when you are finished with your high intensity work out, your body is producing a lot of adrenaline. After you are done with your cooling down exercises the amount of adrenaline in the blood reduces.
Your heart becomes very active during a workout session and starts pumping blood to the muscles at a very frantic pace. Its activity further rises if the exercise is a cardiovascular exercise. If you bring an abrupt stop to the workout session, there will be no pumping action which will give the blood back to the heart from the muscles which will lead to a very serious condition known as blood pooling. There is also a good chance that there will be a lot of waste present in your blood as well. Studies have shown that a particular condition develops in the muscles because of the absence of cool down exercises. This condition is known as Delayed onset of muscle soreness. As a result of which the muscles which have been targeted in a workout will start to hurt after a few hours of exercising.
There are many ways to cool down. One of the ways to do this is to simply lower the intensity of the exercise. This kind of cooling down is done mostly in the case of cardiovascular exercises like running and jogging. If you simply slow down your pace of jogging, it will automatically turn into a cooling down exercise.
Another way of effective cooling down is stretching. It is one of the most effective exercises when it comes to avoiding muscle soreness. While stretching, give stress to the areas which you have worked out on that day. This will surely help in their growth.
So now that you know the benefits of cooling down exercising, hopefully you will be able to incorporate them in your daily routine. Stay safe.
