Warm-ups are exercises done before sports to prepare muscles and joints to prevent injuries and improve performance. They include joint mobility movements, activation exercises like running and skipping, and games. Warm-ups increase body temperature, lung and muscle function, nerve transmission, and physical abilities. They also improve force levels and prevent injuries by increasing muscle elasticity and temperature. Exercises should move from feet to head and side to side across the court. Example activation exercises are running, heel walking, and jumping, while sample games described are tag and a catching game.

1. Alumna: Luisa Pérez
Curso: 3º E.S.O - B

2. What is it?
 It is the set of exercises you do for
prepare your muscles and joints before
you do a sport to prevent injuries and to
have better results.

3. Befenits
 On the body:
- Increased body temperature.
- Increased activity in the lung and improves oxygen utilization.
- Increased speed of muscle contraction.
 On the motor:
- Improved transmission of nerve impulses.
 On the performance in the activity:
- Increased psychic abilities and cognitive: attention, concentration and
information processing.
- Capacities article-organic and muscular.
- Increased levels of force.
 On injury prevention:
- Increased body temperature.
- Increased muscle elasticity.

4. How to do it
 1. Joint mobility: Move all your joints
from feet to head.
- Rotate your ankles, first the right one and then change.
- Rotate your knees and your waist.

5. - Move your right leg and your left leg forward and backward and
then side to side.
- Move your shoulders
forward and backward
and move your arms like
swimming.

6. - Move your elbows over your head.
- Rotate your wrists.
- Move your head making circles and
then to one side to another.
And with this you have
finished the joint mobility.

7.  2. Activation: Set of short excersises you
do to warm up your muscles. (You always
do these excersises moving to one side of the
court to the other)
- Run slowly.
- Run with your heels to the ass.
- Skipping.
- Run touching your feet.
- Sidewards.
- Run crossing your legs.
- Sprint.
- Three steps and jump
- Run doing circles with your arms.
You can also invent new excersises*

8.  3. Games
- The package: Everybody must have a pair and do
a big circle. Now one of a pair must chase the
other and if he/she catch his/her pair the one who
was catched must chase his/her partner, and if
you want to be safe you should put in front of
another couple and the one who is backwards
must run for not to be catched.
- Gavilan: One is the catcher and he/she should be
in the middle of the court, the rest must be at one
side and try to pass to the other side without being
catched if the catcher catchs you, you become a
catcher too.
These are only two examples of games, there are a lot
you can do and you can also invent games*

9. And with all of this you
have finished the warm up
and you are prepare to do
any kind of sport.