Find out why it’s important to cool down after exercise, with the help of our experts
Whether you’re lifting weights at the gym or coming back from a 10k run, factoring in a cool down after exercise is crucial to help prevent injury, ease delayed onset muscle soreness and stretch your muscles.
To find out more about why a cool-down routine is so important post-exercise, we spoke to our experts in sport and physiology, to find out why it’s so integral for recovery, the best way to cool down after a workout, and an example of the stretches we can incorporate into our routine. Uzo EhioguA former Royal Marines Commando, British Army officer and military parachutist, Uzo is a NHS clinical teaching fellow at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham and a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.
How to properly cool down after a workout“After you have finished your main component of exercise, a short period of progressively slower and less demanding exercise can be beneficial as a part of the recovery process, such as yoga,” says Ehiogu. “This is beneficial when exercise is low in intensity and is designed to return your body back to its pre-exercise physiological state.
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