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Temperature & Warming Up

Hi! I was wondering about how temperature affects warming up before a workout. When it's colder, do you need to do more to warm up? More specifically, I like to do lower body cardio routines in the pool when I can. Today, the water was pretty chilly, and since water can pretty effectively leech heat from your body, the thought occurred to me that it might affect that.
 
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jothefanbeing said:
When it's colder, do you need to do more to warm up?
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Yes.

When your body is fighting to keep warm, it prioritizes maintaining a stable core body temperature. So you do need to put more time and effort into warming up your skeletal muscles. I don't know how cold your water is, or how strongly you'll experience this effect. Likely you can feel how much of a warmup your body needs.

With working out in water, however, your injury risk is already pretty low. The buoyancy provided by the water makes every exercise low impact, and the resistance provided by the water makes it pretty much impossible to move fast enough to really wrench anything. With water aerobics you can just start right in on your routine. It will likely feel...
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jothefanbeing said:
When it's colder, do you need to do more to warm up?
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Yes.

When your body is fighting to keep warm, it prioritizes maintaining a stable core body temperature. So you do need to put more time and effort into warming up your skeletal muscles. I don't know how cold your water is, or how strongly you'll experience this effect. Likely you can feel how much of a warmup your body needs.

With working out in water, however, your injury risk is already pretty low. The buoyancy provided by the water makes every exercise low impact, and the resistance provided by the water makes it pretty much impossible to move fast enough to really wrench anything. With water aerobics you can just start right in on your routine. It will likely feel harder at first, until you get warmed up. But you don't need to do anything special.
 
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Laura Rainbow Dragon said:
Yes.

When your body is fighting to keep warm, it prioritizes maintaining a stable core body temperature. So you do need to put more time and effort into warming up your skeletal muscles. I don't know how cold your water is, or how strongly you'll experience this effect. Likely you can feel how much of a warmup your body needs.

With working out in water, however, your injury risk is already pretty low. The buoyancy provided by the water makes every exercise low impact, and the resistance provided by the water makes it pretty much impossible to move fast enough to really wrench anything. With water aerobics you can just start right in on your routine. It will likely feel harder at first, until you get warmed up. But you don't need to do anything special.
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Thank you!!
 
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