Safety principles

• S - stretches as part of warm up

  A - appropriate intensity

  F - footwear and clothing

  E - exercise

  R - rest between sessions
• Warm up:

  • Stretches
  • Pulse raiser
  • Skill based practices
  • mental preperation
  • increase amount of oxygen to working muscles
• cool down:

  • maintain elevated breathing and heart rate
  • light anaerobic exercise - reduce intensity slowly
  • stretching
• benefits of warm up:

  • increase body temperature
  • increase range of movement
  • psychological preperation
  • injury prevention
  • increase of effort to full pace
• benefits of cool down:

  • allow body to recover
  • remove lactic acid
  • prevent muscle soreness
  • maintain elevated breathing rate
  • allows muscles to relax