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To build some muscle while doing your cardio, try circuit-training and body-sculpting classes that roll resistance and aerobic training into one continuous routine. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. None of these types of classes is inherently better or worse than others; it depends on where you’ve stretching been & and where you want to go. “If you used to run track or play basketball, you should probably try something like exercise a high-low class, which entails stretching and & and exercise a lot of running and jumping,” she explains. “On the other hand, if you aren’t a dancer or a ‘movement’ person, I wouldn’t stretching recommend a funk or a hip-hop class, at least not initially. It’d be & confusing and you probably wouldn’t get a good workout.” Use exercise very light weight and high reps for the first set of each bodypart worked. (Begin with 25% of one-rep max and use strict form.) Slowly increase the weight used over the course of your workout, pyramiding up to the stretching heaviest amount. For a cardio workout, your & warm-up should: increase your heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen consumption, dilation of blood vessels, joint lubrication and muscle and tendon elasticity. It should also include: Low-level aerobic activity that uses the same muscle groups and similar movement patterns that will be used during the exercise main workout. Static stretches for all major muscles groups, especially the lower body. For all types stretching of exercise, your warm-up activities should: & Take each of the joints exercise through full range of motion. stretching Increase body temperature. Get you psychologically tuned to what your body will be doing. Physiological reasons & for warming exercise up. Warm-ups help stretching the body and its muscles to perform more effectively by: Slowly increasing & and exercise and stretching and & muscle temperature. Serving as a dry exercise run, which alerts the individual to potential musculoskeletal and other problems that may occur stretching at higher intensity. Reducing the risk of exercise-related & heart problems by exercise increasing coronary blood flow. Improving the elasticity stretching of soft tissues. Preventing early lactic-acid buildup and fatigue. & Stimulating motor units of the muscles in preparation for a heavier workload exercise.
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