You get to the gym and check your watch: You have an hour to fit in a workout before your busy day beckons. The temptation—understandably—is to dive right into the good stuff. The heavy lifting or ...

A bodybuilder said he stopped skipping warm-ups, and it's led to better results in the gym. A 5-minute warm-up can help improve muscle activation and reduce injury risk. Adding weights to a warm-up ...

Mobility is how freely and easily your body moves. It's easy to measure and improve your mobility to get all the benefits ...

I have a confession. Although fitness is my day job, I don’t always start my training with a set of warm-up exercises. I know, I know—it’s important to warm up, it readies the body for activity and ...

Get the blood flowing and muscles firing with these six warm-up stretches for runners to prevent injury and feel your best.

This HIIT cardio workout includes a proper warm up to prepare your body for high-intensity training at home. Designed to ...

A new study published in the Journal of Sport and Health Science suggests that elevating muscle temperatures during a warm-up before exercising may be the most important factor for boosting speed and ...

Warming up before physical activity has been around as long as people have engaged in organized sports and exercise. It has been reported that the athletes in ancient Greece and Rome would perform ...

As a general rule for moderate exercise, like brisk walking, any time of day is fine. You can pop out of bed and take off, but that’s not true for vigorous exercise (jogging, weight training, etc.), ...

If you’ve been around the fitness community long enough, you’ve probably noticed there’s not only a lot of back and forth on the type of warmup you should do before lifting, but whether it’s even ...

Running formed the backbone of the routine. Styles would often start sessions with a 20-30 minute run, followed by 100 ...