A proper warm-up: Before you begin any fitness program, regardless of the over-all intensity, you must learn how to warm up your muscles, joints and organs properly. Warming up will help you to promote safety, prevent injury and intensify your over-all fitness performance. When you warm-up each muscle properly you'll find that your muscles are better able to become elastic and relax more easily during and after your fitness session. And it will circulate the blood to nearby tissues and helps remove unwanted waste products from your system. For your fitness or body building program to be as effective as possible you should learn to warm up two different ways with the intention of creating blood flow throughout your entire body and thereby preparing your muscles for the fitness program itself. First, before beginning your specific fitness or body building program and / or weight lifting session, you should perform some sort of cardiovascular exercise at a light, comfortable intensity for about five to ten minutes. You don't want to over-exert yourself at this point or fatigue your muscles. If you do, even a well planned out mens fitness program won't work as well as it should. Now is not the time to do 30 minutes of intense cardio. If your fitness session takes place at home, then walking or riding a bicycle works well. If you plan on performing your fitness program at a gym then just use a stationary bike or walk on the treadmill for 5 – 10 minutes. When the warm-up portion of ... More »