WARM UP & FITNESS

Physical Education Department 4 th of ESO IES Saavedra Fajardo Teacher: Narciso Marín Marín 1 1st Term: Warm-up and Fitness 1. WARM-UP AND COOL-DOWN a. Warm-up concept It is a set of physical exercises we perform to be physically and mentally ready to... More

Physical Education Department 4 th of ESO IES Saavedra Fajardo Teacher: Narciso Marín Marín 1 1st Term: Warm-up and Fitness 1. WARM-UP AND COOL-DOWN a. Warm-up concept It is a set of physical exercises we perform to be physically and mentally ready to carry out a later activity that usually is more strenuous. Therefore it is necessary to warm-up before training, in order to be prepared. There is no doubt that time spent on warming up and cooling down will improve an athlete s level of performance and accelerate the recovery process needed before and after training or competition. To summarize, we warm up for three reasons: to prevent injury, to improve performance and to prepare psychologically for the event. b. Warm-up stages Every warm-up has two phases at least: • General stage: Its aim is to run your organism using several exercises affecting whole body, through great muscles. Actually we call this stage as General warm-up. • Specific stage: we just run the muscles that ta Less