Here are the four biggest warmup myths that circulate among exercisers. These myths need to be blown out of the water if you want to have a productive, results-producing workout and lose weight in the safest and most healthy way.
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You heard the universal recommendation to warm up before you work out. But if you’re like many people, you may pass over this step because you feel pressed for time, or think that it’s not really that important. So why don’t more of us warm up? Good question!
Maybe warm-ups need a good ad campaign. An ad for warming up would tell you that it burns calories, enhances your fat burning potential, prevents injuries, and more. By not warming up, you do miss out on many important advantages.
If you want your workouts to count and produce a fitter, healthier and more attractive body, then you want to understand and practice proper exercise form. Proper form when extending and retracting your muscles optimizes calorie burn and results. Neglecting for causes you to work out inefficiently. Poor form can also mean unnecessary stress on joints, misalignment and injury. Exercise with a rounded back and one day something’ s gonna snap. Lock your elbows at the end of a chest fly and your joints are going to protest. Even if you’ve been able to get away with less-than-perfect form and are injury free, you are not getting the most, if anything, out of your workout. So, what exactly is good exercise form? Here are a few of the basics of form to keep in mind:
Muscle soreness is one thing, but how can you tell the difference between soreness and an injury to your body? If you injure yourself during a workout you will usually feel a sharp pain or visible swelling. Or if you have inflamed a body part, you will feel a dull, nagging pain in that area. Either way, you will know intuitively that something is wrong with your body.
