{"id":8684,"date":"2011-02-07T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2011-02-07T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:16:17","slug":"warmup-cooldown-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2011\/02\/07\/warmup-cooldown-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Up so You Can Take Charge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"charles in charge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8685\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 3px solid black;\" title=\"charles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charles.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/charles-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ll make this simple as to not waste your time.\u00a0 You speak to your body just like you speak to people.\u00a0 If you walk in to a Harley Store and start screaming at the guys and demanding stuff&#8230;you&#8217;re gonna get hurt.\u00a0 This is just like your body.\u00a0 If you take off at a mad sprint or start pumping iron immediately once you enter the gym&#8230;you&#8217;re gonna get hurt.\u00a0 There is an amazingly amazingly easy way to stop all the pain though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm up and Cool Down<\/strong><br \/>\nEveryone knows you have to warm up and it sucks and you just wanna do your work out and go home and make cookies and fall asleep to <em>Charles in Charge<\/em> reruns, but unfortunately if you get hurt cause you didn\u2019t warm up it is gonna spoil your whole days plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm up<\/strong><br \/>\nA warm up means 5-10 means of aerobic exercise (aka jumping up and down or running) to get your heart and muscles primed for whatever is coming next.\u00a0 When you wake up in the morning and can\u2019t jump out of bed, IT\u201dS BECAUSE OF THE EXACT SAME REASON. You gotta warm up.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let Charles down on this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cool Down<\/strong><br \/>\nThe same way you would leave the shop of angry Harley riders is the same thing your body DEMANDS.\u00a0 You gotta COOL DOWN.\u00a0 All the blood is rushing through your muscles furiously trying to give you energy and you have to help yourself literally cool down naturally or you could run into problems like overheating, getting sick or even fainting.\u00a0 Ever get off a treadmill and think you were gonna pass out?\u00a0 Did you cool down for 5-10 min? Hmmm Hmmm thought so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what did we learn here? <\/strong><br \/>\n1. Warming up is good<br \/>\n2 .Cooling down is good<br \/>\n3. Cookies and <em>Charles in Charge<\/em> reruns equal the perfect day<\/p>\n<p>Got any suggestions for a good warm up or cool down?\u00a0 Prefer \u201cWho\u2019s the Boss\u201d instead of \u201cCharles\u201d?\u00a0 Let me know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"health and fitness tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\">WithAmyMac.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll make this simple as to not waste your time.\u00a0 You speak to your body just like you speak to people.\u00a0 If you walk in to a Harley Store and start screaming at the guys and demanding stuff&#8230;you&#8217;re gonna get hurt.\u00a0 This is just like your body.\u00a0 If you take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,1492,12,1461,23,9,225,93,1491,21],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amy-mac","tag-cooling-down","tag-exercise","tag-exercise-tips","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-tips","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-warming-up","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}