Indoor Warm-up Exercises

It is crucial to warm-up before any type of physical activity. Warming up is usually overlooked or totally avoided but it is beneficial to go into a workout with warm, stretchy muscles instead of cold ones. There are many simple warm-ups you can do inside your home in order to prepare for a workout. The following are some indoor warm-up exercises so that bad weather can no longer be an excuse for not warming up!

1. Hip Circles
    Trace the shape of a circle with your knee. You can start small and increase your range of motion as you go. Circle knee in both directions.

2. Leg Swings
    Perform leg swings foward/back, side to side and at a diagonal for mobility of the hips.

3. Dynamic Hip Stretch
    Pull knee up as high as possible. Grab ankle while rotating your knee out and pull up on your leg to feel stretch through the hip.

4. Torso Rotation
    Press palms together and rotate from side to side as far as possible. Keeps your knees bent slightly.

5. Shoulder Stretch
    Put arm on chest. Grab forearm with the opposite arm and pull until you feel your shoulder being stretched. Repeat with other arm.