Your heart rate and blood pressure can increase gradually and safely instead of rapidly.
Your breathing increases gradually which can prevent you from getting out breath too quickly during your workout and becoming unable to maintain the exercise.
Oxygen is necessary to produce energy during aerobic exercise. Without oxygen, your workout won’t last very long.
Your body sends blood (which carries oxygen and nutrients) away from areas that don’t need it and to your muscles that do need it for exercise.
The temperature of your muscles, joints, and tissues increase, which allows them to move more easily and efficiently during exercise and through a greater range of motion.
You have time to get in the right mindset for the time, type, and intensity of exercise you are about to perform.
In general, a warm up prepares your body and mind for more intense exercise and allows you to safely maintain it.
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