How many times have you exercised and found yourself hurt or in pain? Age does make it more difficult to perform hard exercises. Moderate exercises are better, but they still don’t spare you from acquiring possible exercise-related injury. Exercises, whether light or heavy, require moving joints, ligaments and muscles. Over exertion of these can cause undue strain and possible injury. Warm up- studies are still ongoing to determine the best warm-up technique for injury prevention, but the warm-up in general is accepted as a key to safe and effective exercise.

Effective warm-ups increase heart rate and breathing and slightly increase the temperature and muscle tissue, warm-up to the point where you have raised a light sweat. Before general fitness exercise, do 5 to 10 minutes of warm-up. Before exercises at higher level or a special sporting goal, do a longer warm-up, one designed specifically for your sport.