Never start any training session, whether you are lifting weights or doing a cardio work-out, without properly doing a 5-10 minute warm up with your body. A proper warm up that consists of jogging in place, jumping jacks, moderate cardio on a machine or just taking a quick jog, are crucial in making sure that you help warm your core and get your muscles in a flexible ready to train state.

You greatly reduce your chance for injury by warming up properly. This must be an integral part of your routine, irrelevant of your goals! Please don’t skip it.