Exercise for Health

Exercise is a key component to a healthy lifestyle. There are some safety factors that should be adhered to when exercising. It is important to warm up first with a regiment of low impact aerobic exercise to warm up the muscles of your body. The warm up is the process of making your body work hard enough to increase your heart rate which in turn increases blood flow to the muscles of the body. After a sufficient warm up, it is then time to stretch the muscles of your body to prepare them for the workout session. I prefer a total body stretching routine rather than to stretch only the muscles you think you will be using in your workout. I train Tae Kwon Do and never know which muscle groups will get the most use in any given class as the training varies so greatly from class to class. To not follow the warm up and stretch routine is to invite muscle and connective tissue damage during the workout session. This applies to all ages of people not just adults.