Posts Tagged ‘warm up’

Do I Need Warm up Before Exercises if I do Cardio First

Posted in Q&A on 05/02/2008 07:00 am by Rumi

“Hi Rumi, your site is really helpful. The best I liked about it are those 20 min workout which you can fit into your routine anywhere anytime…..but my question to you is “If I am already doing cardio in the Gym and want to include workout for arms, is it ok to just include the exercises as the body is already warm up or I should be doing the warm up as well???

Also I wanna know if I buy your workout videos can those be shipped to me in my country India…if so how would the costs be affected? Thanks and keep up the good work.

Preeti”

Hi Preeti,

Thank you for your nice letter :)

Cardio is one of the best ways to warm up the body. The reason for this is that you start with some pace and slightly increase it after your body adapts to the effort. For example I love treadmill as cardio because:

  • It gives you control on the speed from the beginning to the end of the warm up. You can start at very slow speed and slightly increase the sped every 2-3 minutes in order to give the body the chance to adapt to the speed and even asks for more lol
  • You can warm up not only your legs (it is obvious legs are the most involved in treadmill cardio), but also your arms, abs, back and buttocks muscles. How this happens? While you walking on the treadmill (I don’t recommend running, fast walking is better) you can move your arms forward-backward and even try to tighten them. The same with your abs – tighten them, but this will happen even without effort of you because abs are responsible for the overall posture of the body and they tighten while you walk or run. And not on the last place – buttocks – walking and running is the best exercise for them too.
  • You burn fat – we all beg for this lol

Long story short – you don’t need to warm up after cardio in order to do exercises.

About ordering my exercise DVDs, the shipment is included in the price of $40. I use regular post and it will take from 1 to 3 weeks to come to India (can’t predict the speed of the post services, sometimes they are really fast, sometimes it takes very long to receive the DVD’s).

Until DVDs come, you can workout using my online version of exercise videos.