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warm-up exercises

UK/wɔːrm ʌp ˈek.sə.saɪz.ɪz/US/wɔrm ʌp ˈek.sɚ.saɪz.ɪz/WARM·up EX·er·CIS·es

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light exercises performed before the main workout to prepare the body and reduce injury risk

Examples

Always start your session with warm-up exercises to reduce the chance of injury.

The coach led a series of warm-up exercises before practice.

Warm-up exercises increase blood flow to the muscles.

Band 8 sentence

In professional training programmes, structured warm-up exercises are emphasised to enhance performance and prevent injury.

Collocations

  • do warm-up exercises
  • a short/brief warm-up

Word family

warm up phrasal verbwarm-up adjective / noun

Common mistakes

warm up exerciseswarm-up exercises

do warming exercisesdo warm-up exercises

Say it for a higher band

5do stretching6do warm up7+warm-up exercises

Synonyms

stretching exercises

Easily confused

stretching exercises

Before playing basketball they did some stretching exercises.

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