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How many of us are guilty of finishing our workout, heading to the showers, and then heading home?? What step are we forgetting?? You got it – the cool down. I think that some of us fail to realize how important the cool down is to our body. By continuing to move about at a low intensity it allows our blood flow to redistribute itself from pooling in our extremities as well as bring down our heart rate. By decreasing our heart rate your blood pressure is going to decrease and systems such as digestion will begin to function yet again. If you fail to cool down your heart rate will remain elevated for longer periods of time (which is not beneficial) and you may obtain greater muscle soreness and stiffness than if you had taken 1 0minutes to do a nice easy cool down.