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Do make sure that you warm up before any round of exercise and down afterwards. If you fail to prepare with a good warm up you may well find that you tweak a muscle pretty early on and are unable to exercise for days or even weeks afterwards. Fail to warm down and you’ll feel stiff. Either way, it’s counter productive

Don’t overdo things. You may feel like going the extra mile on top of what you had planned because you feel like you can. But a regime is a regime, and doing too much will have detrimental effects just as not doing enough will leave you short of the level you were aiming for. Neither situation is welcome

Do prepare with a decent meal. Nothing heavy that will sit on the stomach. Your body will go through a lot of processes as you are training, and attempting to digest heavy food at the same time will lead to complications, and potentially the meal making an unwelcome reappearance at an inopportune time. Not what you want.