Which of the following is the second period of a normal daily exercise routine?

• A. Warm-up
• B. Conditioning
• C. Cool-down
• D. Stretching

Answer: (B)

The second period is the conditioning—the main workout where you perform the bulk of your effort at the planned intensity. A proper session starts with a warm-up to raise heart rate and prepare muscles, then moves into conditioning for the main training, and ends with a cool-down to gradually return the body to rest and aid recovery. Stretching is often done as part of the warm-up or cool-down, but it isn’t the second phase itself. So the main reason the conditioning phase fits as the second period is that it houses the primary training workload after the preparatory warm-up and before the recovery-focused cool-down.