So I did a cardio stress test yesterday because my life insurance company wanted it. I've never done one before so I didn't know exactly what to expect. I knew I'd be running on a treadmill but I thought it was going to be pretty lightweight. Even so, I ran around the parking lot at the doctor's office a few times just to warm-up.
So I go in, they hook me up to an EKG harness and start me walking on a small incline. Then they speed it up a little and increase the incline. They do this two more times until I'm running at probably about a 9:15/min mile and a pretty good incline. My HR hits about 150 and we're done. Maybe 10 mins total. Then they pull me off and lie me down to see how quickly the HR recovers. The med tech remarked after a minute or two that it was already back down to 65 and that was "excellent".
All well and good - but the warm-up was minimal and the warm-down was non-existent. I didn't really think about it though because
