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I have had a personal experience that showed me the importance of cardiovascular warm-ups as they relate to recovering from an injury.

I am speaking about an injury for which most people would never perform an aerobic workout. A few years ago I suffered from a severe case of Bell’s Palsy (weakness of the nerve that innervates and controls the muscles for facial expression) on one-half of the face.

Bell’s Palsy left me with the muscles of one-half of my face paralyzed and expressionless. I was told it would take 3 to 6 months before normal nerve function would be restored!

I was unwilling to live with this condition for that long and immediately researched means for reducing this time frame. One of the first things I did after getting Bell’s Palsy was to get on my road bike/wind trainer for at least 20 to 30 minutes each day. I followed this up with TMJ massage and a variety of jaw, neck, and shoulder exercises.

To everyone’s amazement, I recovered fully, with complete neuromuscular control of the muscles in my face, within about a month. I am convinced that my daily aerobic exercise is one of the major reasons I got over this condition in about a third of the normal time. The aerobic exercises I did every day resulted in increased circulatory function and improved mitochondrial activity (energy production)!

So take the time to do your aerobic warm-up before doing these exercise programs...you will be amazed at the difference it makes in your healing, recovery, power, and strength development!