When you warm up, it also may help lower muscle soreness and lessen injury risk. Cooling down after your workout lets the heart rate and blood pressure slowly recover to preexercise levels.

In chatting, we both realized that we’ve been well-indoctrinated with the idea that every workout should involve a warm up and cool down (only she’s better at following guidelines than me ...

Every part of the workout is important, from the warm up, to the cool down. On this week's Healthy Living, we are talking about the cool down. Here's Kim Anderson from Erie Fitness Now with advice.

The National Weather Service's Metro Detroit forecast this week calls for a warm-up, a cool-down then more warmth, all with dry skies. "We're entering into a little back and forth on the weather ...

But does that mean we can get away with not warming up and cooling down in the same way? According to Hollie Grant, the founder of Pilates PT, the answer is mixed. “A warm up is often a less ...