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Organizing Your Training Session For Injury Prevention
We are all trying to get more out of our workouts, but one of the things we don’t want is to sustain an injury. Like anything else we do in life, organization is key. An organized plan for your workout sessions will provide a more consistent and effective workout, but more importantly, will also help prevent injury.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommends doing a proper warm up, cool down, and stretching exercises to reduce your chances of injury while trying to become fit.1 I also highly recommend working with a certified fitness trainer who can help you design a program with all of these components and who can make sure you are using good form when executing exercises.
Start Your Day with Stretching
A few weeks ago, Michael Storms, a 6th degree Karate black belt, decided to follow his dog’s daily stretching routine. “I had no idea before I started doing this,” Michael said. “But my dog stretches over a hundred times a day. I’m getting stronger and more flexible by the day just following what my dog [...]
Stretch Your Hamstrings…Relax Your Mind
Years ago I heard it said that as we age the first thing to go is our flexibility. This then begs the questions: If you don’t lose your flexibility, do you get older some other way? Or not at all?
