An active warm-up is a series of dynamic movements designed to prepare your body for exercise by gradually increasing your heart rate, improving blood flow to your muscles, and enhancing mobility. Unlike static stretching, which involves holding a position, an active warm-up keeps your body moving. Get started with these 9 dynamic movements to boost circulation, loosen up & get ready.

1. Active Toe Touch - This is an excellent exercise to activate the hamstring muscles, engage the trunk, and loosen up the lumbar before a run or workout.
2. Lunges - Try this exercise to prime the glutes, quads, hamstrings, and hips before your run.
3. Active Quad Stretch - Targeted warm-up movement to activate the quadriceps muscles.
4. Active Hamstring Balance - Targets and activates the hamstrings, glutes, and core.
5. Stars - Activation for hamstrings, lower back, glutes and quads.
6. Scorpion Activation - Great active exercise to loosen the hips, back and trunk before a workout or run.
7. Calf Achilles Stretch - Various stretches for the calf muscles and plantar fascia.
8. Front to Back Leg Swings - Fires up the hamstrings and glutes to get you ready for your run.< /li>
9. Side to Side Leg Swings - Active exercise to engage the hips, quads, hamstrings and glutes before a run.

This is an excellent exercise to activate the hamstring muscles, engage the trunk, and loosen up the lumbar before a run or workout.

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Try this exercise to prime the glutes, quads, hamstrings, and hips before your run. Watch on Youtube.

Targeted warm-up movement to activate the quadriceps muscles. Watch on YouTube.

Targets and activates the hamstrings, glutes, and core. Watch on YouTube.

Active exercise to engage the hips, quads, hamstrings and glutes before a run. Watch on YouTube.

Fires up the hamstrings and glutes to get you ready for your run. Watch on YouTube.

Activation for hamstrings, lower back, glutes and quads. Watch on YouTube.

Great active exercise to loosen the hips, back and trunk before a workout or run. Watch on YouTube.

Various stretches for the calf muscles and plantar fascia. Watch on YouTube.