How to Do an Aerobic Exercise Cool Down

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KATIE BOWERS: Hi, my name is Katie Bowers with Expert Village, and you are watching aerobics with boot camp. Any type of exercise you're ever going to do, you always want to end it with a cool-down and begin with a warm-up. So how we're going to go ahead and cool-down is relax a lot of the neck muscles and the shoulders and the upper back, the rhomboids. All these muscles start to clinch and get really tense and tight as they're trying to learn new basic moves. Some of them you're not pretty familiar with. Sometimes these muscles need time to acclimate and get used to the new movement. So we're going to build them some memory, but first we need to relax them so you're not so tense and tight the next day. So we'll begin with the neck. Just gently roll the neck down. And I say just rotate the head down in the front and not in the back, and the reason for that is when you rotate the head down in the back--as well a lot of times again, this is something we did in the '80s--is you say, go ahead and roll your head and you go forward and back, you're actually--what you're giving yourself is a mild whiplash, which a lot of people don't know, is that your neck is intended to have a normal curve in the spine. But it's not intended to be whipped back there, like I probably shouldn't have been doing, but rotate that head down in the front and just keep it nice and basic, and then gently hold it to the side, dropping the shoulder, and other side and go ahead and take a couple of deep breaths in and exhale out.

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