Cooling Down After High & Low Impact Aerobic Exercises

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Andrea Austin and you are watching Expert Village. Okay. Boy am I winded. That was really, really hard. I put those moves together and it was really challenging. It not only helps you develop your heart and lungs but also helps with athletic coordination. Definitely helps me a lot. So at this point, we want to do a cool down. Cool down is so important after you do a workout like that. It's going to bring your heart rate back down to a resting level. It's going to help with muscle soreness, not to be as much after this. So, you can see here that I have a mat. Very important for comfort to stretch. You want to go ahead and lay that mat out and have a seat on there. We're going to do some basic stretches for the muscles that you worked. So, bring your feet forward. You're going to sit tall and keep your knees straight. You don't want to bend your knees or lock your knees. You want to just keep them straight. And, you're going to inhale and exhale. Reach towards those feet. And you want to hold the stretch for at least ten seconds. Okay, feet out wide. You're going to go ahead and stretch your inner thighs now. You worked those a lot. During our workout your toes are straight up. You don't roll them forward or backward. Sitting tall in the spine and inhale and exhale. Reach forward until you feel a nice, strong stretch in your inner thighs. It should not be painful but it should be a strong stretch. Holding it there for at least ten seconds. Now bring your chin to your chest. Press your shoulders to the floor. Bring your right ear to your shoulder. Feel the stretch in your shoulder and neck. And then to the other side. Stretching out your shoulder and neck. And release that. And we're going to bring an inhale, a cleansing inhale and exhale. One more time, inhale and exhale. And at this point you have got to give yourself a hand because you did an awesome job."