Warming up is important before exercise to prepare the body and avoid injury. It has two parts: general exercises involving the main muscles like jogging and joint movements, and specific exercises related to the upcoming activity. A proper warm up increases body temperature, improves joint and muscle efficiency, and enhances performance by allowing muscles to move faster and with more strength.

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2. WhatisWarming-up?Warming up is a set of sequencial and progressiveexercises, involvingallthemuscles and jointswiththegoal of preparingthebodyforexercise, so thebody can performadequately and avoidinjury.

3. Benefits of the warm up:If you do a good warm up, you can get: 1) Protection against injuries2) Better performanceAnd also: -You increase your body temperature. -Your joints move more efficiently-Oxygen in blood travels faster.-Your muscles extend more and are more elastic-Muscles move faster and with more strength-You react faster

4. A WARM – UP HAS 2 PARTS:GENERAL - Physical activities with your main muscles SPECIFIC - Exercises directly related to the next activity that we will do. For example, in a basketball warm-up we practice bouncing, shooting, different movements, games, drills…

5. WARM UP GENERALStarting up: jogging, walking, soft running, … etc. Joint movements: Free pendulum like motion movements and some circles around your joints Streching of your main groups (upper limbs, lower limbs and trunk)

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