Warming up

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Warming up is a very necessary part of exercising. You do not have to workout hard to warm up. You may do what I like to do which is go for a walk at a brisk pace for somewhere between five and ten minutes. Treadmills work great for this if you have access to one. You may do five to ten minutes of any cardio activity though, like riding a stationary bike or using a cardio machine like the elliptical or walking outside. Elipticals and Stationary Bikes can be a better option for you if you have any lower body issues like bad knees.

How will you know you are ready to workout? You will feel warm, maybe a little sweat.

Or you can do the following:

Marching in place

Standing, we begin by raising one of our knees forward in a marching motion and letting our arms and hands move naturally back and forth alternating steps for 1 minute

High knees

High knees will move our marching motion into a the high impact side of things. We are running in place here bringing our knees up high in front of us. If high impact exercising is something you need to avoid, continue marching in place for another minute. You can focus on bringing the knees further up.
If you do not need to avoid high impact then run in place and get those knees high up front for 30 seconds

Butt kickers

Keep with the running in place but now you will be kicking the feet up toward your behind, like you were kicking your own butt 30 more seconds. Again, maintain the lower impact if necessary, just change the movement by focusing on kicking the feet toward your rear now, go for a minute if you are choosing the low impact

Jumping jacks

We all know ‘em so just do it. 30 seconds. Lower impact is to step side to side rather than hop. Get those arms moving now, up over head if possible for you

Arm circles

We can finally stop moving those legs now. Raise those arms out to the side and start your forward circles. Fingertips out up or down makes no difference to me. 20 seconds small circles forward no bigger than 6” circles. 20 seconds small circles backwards. 20 seconds bigger circles 1 and ½ feet forward and then back.

Punching combo

10 jabs each arm
10 hook uppercut combo do each side
5 jab cross hook uppercut each side so 10 total

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