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At this point in time, you are reading this article which undoubtedly proves a lot about your concern towards your health and fitness levels. But that is obviously not enough to get a body you want. As a fitness enthusiast or probably a candidate of it, you must have seen people struggling through their daily routines in dieting and exercising. Unfortunately, in spite of taking so much into consideration for a concerned fitness process, one thing that is more often left behind is a ‘well developed and dynamic warm up’. The general concept of fitness is to outline the idea of strength and endurance where as that of the health is the well being of every aspect including physical, social and emotional fronts. Bunching up of these two concepts forms an interrelated theory of ‘warm up’ which is the missed part of your journey towards fitness.

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As a human, your body needs certain adjustments to the environment you are in, be it your emotional state or social or as in here- a physical one. This is what the idea of ‘warm up’ provides- ‘An Adjustment’. As a basic understanding of adjustment, the body demands time in order to reach a certain optimum level, particularly when taking exercise into consideration. ‘Warm up’ should not be seen any different from general exercising as it is a one of that kind but on a zero level. It allows your body to develop an understanding with the upcoming events of harsh drilling.

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In a more upfront way whenever you goal for fitness, injury is never considered to be a part of it. Is it? As a matter of fact, most of the injuries occur due to this one ‘missing part’of ‘warm up’. Performing any kind of fitness activities without commencing it with a dynamic warm up session can lead to serious injuries which will ultimately affect your level of fitness.

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Normally, your body is not ready to handle harshness straight away. Moreover, the body is tender in the beginning levels of a drill due to which the vulnerability to an injury is quite intense. Whenever you choose to warm up, it provides a sense of milestone accomplishment to your body and it gradually catches speed towards strict exercises. The dynamic warm up is certainly important for every individual involved in either upper body or lower body exercises. It provides a range of motion to the muscles that you are going to use during the main exercise which exclusively increases your performance as a trainee. Not only these drills provide you the flexibility but also reduce the risk of an injury to a minimum level.

The Benefits

First of all, the understanding of a few facts during a training session is of paramount importance. Fitness is not something you will gain in a day of treadmill run. Your body requires time or may be quite a sum of time. So, overdoing yourself will gain you nothing other than an injury and fatigue. Starting up with a warm up develops your body towards achieving what you desire in a consistent but unturned manner.

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When you get through a dynamic warm up, it tends to work on every part of your body involved in an exercise, perfectly coordinating between your muscles, ligaments, and joints. This as a result opens up each and every part of your body making you ready for your performance in the chief work out.

A dynamic warm up would probably stimulate your body hormones to improve body awareness and enhance muscular performance. Some statistics reveal that a dynamic warm up can increase your overall performance over any other static warm up would ever do. This kind of drill challenges your balance and coordination which further can be considered responsible for your optimal performances.

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A warm up that would slowly and gradually bring up your heart rate to the desired levels is obviously preferred more over something that would shoot it up just in a matter of seconds. The balanced increase in heart rate will fundamentally warm up your muscles with a rise in the flow of blood. As we discussed earlier, the muscles in the beginning are more tender and prone to injury. The warm up session prevents such cases of serious issues and also, decrease the severity of an injury situation.

Conclusion

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Now, after all being said, the importance of a dynamic warm up can be determined undoubtedly. Not because is necessary but because warm up is concerned to your own well being, it is advised to everyone to not miss this foremost part of an exercise routine. Consider it as a part of your regular plan and turn it from a ‘missing part’ to a ‘must-do part’ of your work out plan.

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