“…Studies reporting improvement in endurance performance related to warm up at-tribute the benefit to an increase in VO 2 (Andzel, 1978;Andzel, Gutin, 1976;Genovely, Stamford, 1982;Grodjinovsky, Magel, 1970;Martin, Robinson, Wiegman, Aulick, 1975), an increase in heart rate (HR) (Andzel, 1978;Andzel, Gutin, 1976;Martin et al, 1975), a decrease in lactate accumulation (Gerbino, Ward, Whipp, 1996;Kozlowski et al, 1985;Mujika, de Txabarri, Maldonado-Martin, Pyne, 2012), or increased time to exhaus-tion (Ng, Cheng, Fung, Ngai, Wong, Yeung, 2007). Physiologically, the improved performance correlated to warm up may be related to the increased muscle temperature (Bishop, 2003a;Jones, Koppo, Burnley, 2003), improved VO 2 kinetics early in the exercise bout (Burnley, Jones, Carter, Doust, 2000;Gerbino et al, 1996;Hajoglou et al, 2005;Johnson et al, 2014), improved exercise tolerance (Carter et al, 2005), improved aerobic abilities (Bishop, 2003a;Carter et al, 2005;Hajoglou et al, 2005;Johnson et al, 2014;Jones et al, 2003), and increased nerve conduction velocity (Johnson et al, 2014).…”