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A warmup or stretching of the muscles that you will be using.
Do some stretching exercises before you take your run. Taking a hot shower before a run will also warm up your muscles and help prevent in the knees.
To prevent sore muscles when you wake in the morning: You should stretch before bedtime and when you wake up. You can also get massage or get a paste for the pain.
Warming up helps prevent pulled muscles and allow better performance.
Its important because warming up w/ stretches gets your muscles stretched out & gets you ready for doing any exercise activity. Also it can prevent you from hurting yourself by over straining your muscles w/out preparing.
There are a couple of great aids that can prevent cramping of the muscles. Always warm up before exercise to loosen the muscles. After a workout where you may have over-worked a muscle, be sure to add a warm compress to the muscle to keep it from cramping.
Exercise will increase your clothes pin squeezing rate because when you exercise your muscles release a waste called lactic acid which helps reduce muscle fatigue
If you are going to be running, it is a good thing to stretch, but more importantly than stretching before you workout is stretching after to get the ketones out of your muscles and prevent exhaustion.
The best way to prevent hip injuries from running is to stretch both before and after you go. Usually it is easier to just stretch before, but by stretching after, you allow those muscles to loosen up, and get the acid out of them, which if left in there over time, can create hip pain.
Static stretching (stationary stretches) is important after exercise to prevent cramping and tightness in muscles that can develop into muscle tears and strains later on. Before exercise static stretching should be kept to a minimum as it limits power from the muscles. Dynamic stretches should be used before exercise to prevent injury and properly warm up the body. Generally stretching is important because it prevents injury during and after exercise.
Do an off ie warmup before you skate. This way your muscle will be ready by the time you step on the ice, and you are less likely to pull any muscles.