What is the Cooldown?
When you exercise your entire body heats up. Putting your muscles under stress creates more demand for oxygen which makes your heart work harder to deliver oxygenated blood to where it’s needed. Your blood circulation speeds up increasing your heart rate. There are many reasons that cause the increase in your body temperature but an important part of post exercise recovery is to allow your heart rate to slow down first, to give yourself time to stabilize. During that time your body cools down. While your body is still warm, it’s the perfect time to stretch out your muscles, ligaments and tendons as they shorten and tense up during exercise. This is the vital time to regain back the normal range of movement around your joints. Flexibility is also a main component of fitness. Stretching allows greater mobility and range of movement for your joints and limbs (skeletal). Every Stage finishes with a ‘Cooldown’ routine.
