Cool Down Exercises and Stretches - Cools Down you Body after workouts

Proper Cool Downs helps your body get back to pre-exercise levels, clears blood metabolites and helps faster recovery. Learn the best cool down exercises.

Cool Downs are crucial post weight training workouts as the warm muscle respond best to stretching. At the end of a high intensity weight training workout your blood tends to accumulate in your lower body { That is why you feel light headed after an intense workout especially after squats or dead lifts}.

This accumulated blood has to be re-circulated back to heart and lungs again for purification again. Not that this cannot happen by itself, but cool downs have proven to be very effective to get your body back to pre-exercise levels and faster recovery. Not to mention reduced muscle soreness.
 

Advantages of Cool Downs

Faster clearance of muscle metabolism byproducts and lactic acid.

Reduced incidence of Muscle Soreness.

Cool Downs help you switch your mind from exercise to other things post workout and even evaluate how your workout went.

How to cool down your body

The best way to cool down is to perform light cardio exercise and cool down stretches for about 5-10 minutes. Alternatively you can continue to do your workout exercises at lower intensities.

NEXT -Stretching Exercises for a flexible body.

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Stretching Exercises

• Neck Rolls
   
• Lunges/ Achilles Tendon Stretches
   
• Hamstring Stretches - Hurdler's Stretches, Combination Hamstring Stretches
   
• Side Bends, Forward Bends, Seated Forward Bends, Standing Twists and Windmills Exercise.
   
• Core Stretches - Lower Back Stabilizers/Erector Spinae Stretches.
   
• Upper/Lower Back Stretching Exercises.
   
• Quadriceps Stretches, Inner Thigh Stretches, Hip Stretches.
   
• Spinal Twists, Hanging Stretches, Abdominal Stretches.
   
• High Knees Exercise, Jumping in Place.
   
• Cool Down Stretches.
   

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