A higher temperature of the environment does not make warming up unnecessary. Warming up should involve a gradual increase in the intensity of the exercises so by the end of the warm-up, the exercises reach the target intensity planned for the beginning of the main part of the workout. What one repeats, one learns, which can betray the athlete in a crucial moment of competition, causing him or her to do a substandard technique. In the next column you will learn how to select exercises for a warm-up. Many children with neurological problems, especially speech and reading difficulties, either have not progressed from a homolateral locomotion pattern to the heterolateral pattern or have regressed to a homolateral pattern typical of more primitive neurological organization.
Similar regression occurs in people who are under constant stress.
In well people such regression, accompanied by a feeling of confusion, can be caused by a homolateral gait and by other nonheterolateral movements such as bicycling, rowing, weight-pulling or weight lifting, with both arms and especially by jumping jacks. To read the next installment of this column click here. References Czajkowski, Z. 1994. Sport Wyczynowy no. Your Body Doesn't Lie.