warm-up drills
Pre-activity loosening routines
Warm-up drills are brief, structured exercises performed before a main activity to prepare the body or mind.
Athletes do warm-up drills before practice or competition to loosen muscles and prevent injury.
The term extends to any preparatory exercises: The choir ran through warm-up drills before the concert.
In education, warm-up drills might be short review problems at the start of class.
- stretchingExtending muscles or material
- arm circlesRotational warm-up movement
- exercisesActivities for fitness
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
- routineRegular sequence of actions
calisthenics · light jog · jogging · jumping jacks · high knees · butt kicks · leg swings · limbering · muscles · foam rolling · court · field · coach · whistle · laps · sprints · conditioning · flexibility
- drillsbuilding evacuation, duck and cover, shelter in place, alarm test, civil defense
- track and fieldtrack and field, sprinters, sprinter, sprinting, sprint
- youth tennisjunior leagues, youth tournaments, tennis camps, tennis lessons
- combat trainingbasic training, boot camp, sparring, shadowboxing, shadow boxing
- Asian Sportsmartial arts, judo, kung fu, taekwondo, karate
- rehearsalread-through, table read, tech rehearsal, dry run, final rehearsal