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Pre Workout Warm Up

Your Pre-Workout Is Just As Important As Your Workout

By Ted Mikulski of ImSkinny.com

I have been going to the gym for years and everyday I see people who show up, get changed, and start working-out. You may do this yourself, in fact I did as well for my first year of weight training. Of course, this is also one of the years where I did not see any results. So, what should you be doing before you workout?

Well, most good body-builders will tell you that cardio plays a very important part to there training regiment. In order to maximize your lifting in the gym you want your body to be ready to handle large amounts of weight. Your first thing in the gym should be stretching. Now you may not want to crush your bad-boy image by standing around stretching but it will loosen up your muscles and improve your overall workout. It also allows your muscles to warm-up to the exercise you will soon be doing and this prevents many common injuries.

Another important thing to do after stretching is about 5-10 minutes of cardio to simply increase your heart rate. As your heart rate increases, blood flow increases and will maximize the flow to your muscles. You will then get longer pumps both in and out of the gym. This also helps to burn some of the fatty build-up that occurs in many weight-training regiments.

So you do not have to commit a lot of time to your pre-workout but it is integral to your weight lifting success. Reducing your risk of injury and increasing your effectiveness of lifting in only 15 minutes is worth the time. If you have any other personal pre-workouts that help you, I would love to hear about them at

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