by Youngbear Roth

Created on: November 27, 2010   Last Updated: December 16, 2010

The easy warm-up exercises described in this article should be discussed with your physician. 

You are a miracle!  The human cellular metabolism is designed to be astonishing.  You and I are creative miracles because our metabolism is self-healing and warm-up exercises tune-up our self-healing engine.

In order to achieve and sustain this phenomenal state of self-healing your metabolism requires a certain balance of fuel that will drive aerobic respiration.  "Aerobic respiration" means, "healing in the presence of oxygen." 

For the majority of us, self-healing is an involuntary activity.  However, if you are a professional athlete, you've learned to key into the astounding news that the human mind does not reside only in the brain – the entire body is actually a "body-mind."

From ballet dancing to football, pro athletes have learned that the warm-up is the correct time and opportunity to voluntarily begin communicating with one's body-mind.  This time is a methodical, important dialogue with your body-mind about weak areas that require attention, hidden injuries to be worked around, and knowing when your body-mind is ready to progress from the warm-up into an intense workout.

The cells that form your connective tissues, joint tissues, living bone tissues, and muscle tissues are structured like factories to consume fuel and manufacture products.  By pumping red cells, white cells, and oxygen into factory sites all over your body, your metabolism carries out the waste, delivers fresh fuel, and manufactures healthy cells.

Exercise accomplishes nothing if it does not break down tissue, create waste, and replace the demolished tissues by manufacturing stronger tissues.  This production of stronger tissues is called metabolic overcompensation.  If you continue to break down tissue cells faster than your metabolic factories can replace them you grow weaker instead of stronger and you sustain injuries.

When you warm-up, you kick-start your metabolic factory sites into a slightly higher state of consumption and manufacturing than they are working at when you are at rest.  In other words, by warming up you go into your heavy workout already in an efficient self-healing state and avoid injury.  Because different tissue cell types require different amounts of recovery time, warm-up fuel, and breakdown to achieve an excellent workout and overcompensation, you plan your workouts according to the cells that

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