"One thing I have noticed is that it depends on which psysical training instructors you talk as to what opinions they have on warm ups and cool downs."
Barry that is true
I watch in horror at times at what some instructors and sports coaches get people to do in gyms, some are very good but the bad ones are outright dangerous
End of the day it is very similar to investing and trading, take in information from different sources, over time you learn to diferentiate the good information from the poor
stick to the few standard rules that should be followed
and
do what works best for you but always be open to new ideas.
In the end it is the results that you achieve that are more important than how you achieved them.
