Fitness Tips from JOI

By Jon Stiffler PTA/Sports Center Manager

Fitness Tips

Don’t Forget Your Warm-up

Need fitness tips? Warming up before exercise is essential to preventing injury. Beginning each workout with a low intensity exercise raises your heart rate, as well as warms up your muscles in order to prepare your body for more intense exercise. Dynamic stretching is also frequently used with low intensity exercise as part of a warmup routine. Dynamic stretching is stretching with movements that typically mimic activities performed during a workout. They are most effective prior to exercise.

Perform Static Stretching AFTER your Workout

Performing static stretches after your workout routine is important for injury prevention as well. A post-workout stretch allows your muscles to lengthen after they are already warm, which helps relieve the feeling that your muscles are tight after exercising. Static stretches are held in a still position and are better for after exercise because they are used to increase flexibility and cool down.  To learn more about stretching, please read does stretching help?

Fitness Tips: Hydrate

It is easy to forget to drink water while exercising, but without proper hydration you become fatigued much faster and can become dizzy and unstable. Water helps keep muscles active for longer periods and is essential for fueling your body for exercise. Hydration allows you to endure a higher-level workout and exercise for a more extended period.

Find an Exercise You Enjoy

Finding an exercise you enjoy is important and individual for each person. If you don’t like how you are exercising, it will be harder to stay motivated and continue to workout. If you are having trouble finding an exercise that is right for you, visit our Alternative Exercises to Running page!

When Starting a New Fitness Routine, Ease Into It

It is important when starting a new fitness plan to ease into your workouts. Starting a program at too high of intensity or working out too frequently can cause your muscles to become more fatigued for longer periods. This can also increase your chance of injury. This increases soreness, which can lead to lower motivation, as well as abandoning the fitness plan altogether.

JOI Rehab Fitness Tips

Whether you are suffering from back issues, joint pain, or injuries resulting from any type of activity, JOI has 12 physical therapy clinics conveniently located in Jacksonville and Northeast FL who specialize in orthopedic rehab.

JOI and JOI Rehab

JOI Physicians continue to offer online new patient appointments. This is another option to make it more convenient to make new patient appointments with less phone hold times. Follow the link below to select your JOI MD and schedule online.

You can still call 904-JOI-2000 to make new patient JOI Physician Appointments if that is your preference.

To make appointments with JOI Rehab, please call 904-858-7045.

By: Jon Stiffler PTA/Sports Center Manager