Choose From These 8 Warmup Videos to Prime Your Muscles Before Conquering Your Workout

This five-minute warmup from NASM-certified personal trainer Nicole Pearce focuses on light cardio like air jump roping, jumping jacks, and butt kickers, as well as dynamic stretches. She made this warmup video with her at-home workouts in mind, but you can always do this before your gym session, too.

Class FitSugar host Anna Renderer says you can use this warmup to kick-start any workout. It's 10 minutes long and includes alternating knee hugs, high-knee skips, jumping jacks, and side bends.

This is a little different: it's a warmup from online yoga teacher Sarah Beth you can take on before your more intense yoga flow or strength workout, she wrote in the YouTube description. You'll do Child's Pose, Cat-Cow, and Downward Dog.

There are 10 exercises in this five-minute cardio warmup from Fitness Blender. They include lateral step and pull, what they call "slow rocking butt kickers," arm swing and lateral step, and basic squats.

Here's a quick warmup for your joints that's classified as an active runner's warmup. You'll do some high marches, butt kicks, leg swings, and other moves — and you'll do 20 of each!

Cassey Ho from Blogilates walks us through a five-minute small-space warmup. "I think it's really dangerous if you have been sitting at school or at work all day, and all of a sudden you're doing burpees and jump squats!" she said. You can easily get injured.

This 12-minute full-body warmup from HASFit is full of dynamic stretches. There are moves like reaching reverse lunges, Downward Dog, high planks, and fire-hydrant circles. The routine incorporates static strength moves with stretches you'd do in yoga.

Anna walks us through five warmup moves: alternating knee hugs, active hamstring stretch, gate swing with a twist, reverse lunge and reach, and plank with arm circles. Watch carefully, because she wants you to intersperse 10-second running intervals in between some sets of these moves.