Warming up is like a switch in your body from idle, Performance mode. Warming up gets your heart pumping thus elevating your blood flow and breathing. This makes your muscles more elastic and less prone to injury. Methods can be a light jog and smaller reps of strength workouts like bar curls.

Breathing his the hidden source of power behind every warm up, exercise, and cool down. While many people over look it, mastering it is vital. Efficient inhaling for 3 seconds and exhaling for 2  feeds muscles with the oxygen they need for power and endurance. It also slows the nervous system down, preventing panic in high intensity workouts. 

Calisthenics workouts are the flagship exercises for empowerment, body weight mastery, and versatility. I started implementing calisthenics workouts like pushups, chin-ups, and sit ups into my workout regime when I was 17 years old. Calisthenics combines compound movements with body weight giving you added cardio, resistance, and flexibility while getting you cut up!

Cooling down is a priority, it doesn’t matter how challenging or how easy the workout was prior. Cooling down will shift your mind from fight to flight, rest and recovery. Doing static stretches like the butterfly’s or L sits keeps blood flowing stable instead of pooling up and decreases risk of injury.