#1: Cool Down
Just as a warm up gets your body ready for exercise, a cool down helps your body to get back to that state of rest.A cool down will help your breathing and heart rate slow down, and your muscles relax.
It also helps your body to eliminate lactic acid and waste products from its muscles by aiding blood flow to those areas.
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