Gentle Warm Up for At-Home Workouts

Gentle Warm Up for At-Home Workouts - This 7-minute warm up includes two minutes of gentle cardio (no jumping) and 5 minutes of dynamic stretches to prepare you to workout. #warmup #fitness #athomeworkout #workoutvideo #beginner

A couple years ago, I posted a 5-minute warm up for at-home workouts. While it’s a big hit on YouTube (over 1.5 million views!), I get lots of comments on the video saying it’s a little too intense. So for anyone looking for a toned down version of that video, today’s gentle warm up is for you.

It’s similar to the original warm up, but we’ll slow down the pace and eliminate all jumping during the cardio portion. It’ll take you 7 minutes to complete.

Gentle Warm Up for At-Home Workouts

The goal of a warm up is to gradually bring your heart rate up and to prepare your body for the range of motion required for the exercises you’re about to complete. So we’ll start with about 2 minutes of gentle cardio. You’ll cycle through four exercises twice, staying on each for 15 seconds. We’ll then move into dynamic or active stretches, doing 3-5 reps of each movement.

This is a general gentle warm up. If you’re working with specific muscle imbalances or injuries, you may need to spend more time addressing those through targeted dynamic stretches or even foam rolling. Always listen to your body, modifying or stopping as needed.

Gentle Warm Up for At-Home Workouts - This 7-minute warm up includes two minutes of gentle cardio (no jumping) and 5 minutes of dynamic stretches to prepare you to workout. #warmup #fitness #athomeworkout #workoutvideo #beginner

Hope this gentle warm up is a better match for what your body needs if you found my previous warm up to be too intense! I put together a guided cool down as well, which I’ll post later this week. You get two videos instead of once since neither is an actual workout.

I’ve been getting lots of requests lately, so here’s what you can look forward to in the coming weeks:

  • Stepper workouts
  • Workouts with heavy weight
  • Another deck of cards workout
  • Another arm song workout

Always open to requests so feel free to send ’em my way! Also working on Studio Pumps class pack #2. 🙂

xo Nicole

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