Warming up and Cooling Down

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Warming up and Cooling Down
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Key Words

• Pulse Raising
• Temperature Raising
• Preparation
• Stretching
• Recovery

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Our Targets For Today

• By the end of the lesson we will all be able to
• Understand why we warm-up and cool-down.
• Perform a warm-up and cool-down
• Including pulse raising/lowering
• Stretching Mobilising

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What are we going to learn and how are we going
to work?
Working as a group you will undertake a variety
of warm-up and cool-down methods
We are going to learn why we perform a warm-up
and cool-down
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Warming up

• Why do we warm-up?
• Helps reduce the risk of injury
• Prepares the body for exercise
• How do we warm-up?
• Raise the bodys temperature/pulse rate
• Stretch the muscles

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Cooling-down

• Why do we cool-down?
• Aids the body recovery
• Helps disperse any lactic acid in order to reduce
  next day stiffness
• How do we cool-down?
• Lower the temperature/pulse rate
• Light stretching

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Task

• You will now undertake a number of warm-up
  routines appropriate to a variety of activities.
• You should note that for each warm-up will
  include
• Pulse raising/Temperature Raising
• Stretching Mobilising
• At the end of the lesson you will also perform a
  cool-down routine appropriate to the exercises
  having been done.

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Have we achieved our Targets?

• Can we now
• Understand why we warm-up and cool-down.
• Perform a warm-up and cool-down
• Including pulse raising/lowering
• Stretching Mobilising

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Key Words

• Pulse Raising
• Temperature Raising
• Preparation
• Stretching
• Recovery