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What is the importance of a cool down?

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Reduce heart and breathing rates

• Gradually cool body temperature

• Return muscles to their optimal length-tension relationships

• Prevent venous pooling of blood in the lower extremities

• Restore physiologic systems close to baseline
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Cooling down after your workout allows for a gradual recovery of preexercise heart rate and blood pressure.
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