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WARMING UP CARD:

The warming up are an amount of exercises general at first and more specific later, that we use in PE (physical education) or in any other physical activity, to prepare body and mind to do a physical activity more intense than usual.

There are two main OBJECTIVES for warming up: Reduce injurie risks. Prepare body systems (heartbeat, breathing, strength...) for exercises coming next.

WARMING UP EFFECTS:

It increases temperature and flexibility of your muscles, which let you move easily. You will increase your coordination and you will be ready and concentrate mentally. It also increases your breathing frequency to catch more oxygen. Heart beating os also increased so the heart will be able

to send more blood to all tissues like muscles and nervous system wich absolutly involved. It prevents from all kind of muscular and joints injuries.

WARMING UP STRUCTURE:

These are the main parts of a warming up in the school: Movement exercises: those exercises that will increase heart beating as well as breathing frequency. These are the aerobic exercises like running, games... Joint movement exercises.

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Stretching exercises.

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WARMING UP FACTORS TO CARE ABOUT:

1. Exercises have always an order, it could be upward or downward, and following the main structure of the warming up. 2. It takes about 5-10 minutes in PE classes. For other activities or sports it takes more time. 3. Intensity increases gradually, starting softly and increasing little by little. You have to end exhausted. 4. Dont do strong movements or very difficult exercises at first. Its very important to start moving slowly despite you feel up to explode. dont

TWO TYPES OF WARMING UPS:

Depending on the purpose of the activity we distinguish two types of warming ups:

General warming up; in wich we prepare the whole body for any kind of physical
activity. Global movements with some general stretching at the end.

Specific warming up; It lets us to be ready for a concrete physical activity or sport.
For that reason we need to know what we are doing next, so exercises will be more precise to the posterior activity. We will also practice some easy technic movements of the next activity. At the end we will do some specific exercises of the muscles we are going to use in the sport.