Welcome to your one-year access to Exercise Central’s Marathon Workouts!  We genuinely appreciate the opportunity to provide you this interactive, virtual exercise and injury prevention experience.  Click below to get started with the first workout. Enjoy!

Warm-Up Reminder

Warming the body has several benefits: metabolic increases, increased blood flow to the muscles, an increase in core temperature, and much more. Imagine taffy. In a cold environment, taffy is very hard and stiff, but when warmed up, it stretches easily. The muscles and soft tissue of your body is much like taffy. When it is heated, it stretches easier and functions better thus significantly reducing the chance of injury.

How to Warm Up

Warming up simply includes a cardiovascular activity for 8 to 10 minutes. This activity should be done at your heart rate zone one or two. You can also incorporate active stretching and lifting routines with very light weight and high repetitions. Don’t be afraid to be creative, but remember that you are just warming up. Also, make sure you don’t engage in passive stretching where you hold a stretch for a longer period of time. Passive stretching is not appropriate for a warm up..

Customize Your Workout

Keep in mind, you have control over how difficult the workout can be by modifying the weight or resistance and/or altering the sets and repetitions. (A set is a group of repetitions, and a repetitions is the number of times you do the exercise at one time.) In addition, you can also choose a more advanced exercise. Click below to download a form that shows you exactly how to progress the exercise and make it more difficult.