Warm Up Your Lower Body

Warm Up Your Lower Body

Generate forward momentum as you move into your day — use Warm Up Your Lower Body to align and activate your lower body. If you want to take your practice further we've lined up a week of videos to use every day to feel the difference in the way you move heading into your day including your stride when you walk and run, and beyond — ready to push off and move forward.

Subscribe Share
Warm Up Your Lower Body
  • Warm Up Your Lower Body

    Aligning and activating your lower body is a powerful way to warm up and generate forward momentum as you move into your day.

    Use this warm up to create a strong foundation by aligning your joints, activating and strengthening surrounding muscles, and putting it into context by practicing key mo...

  • Lily Partridge's Lower Leg + Hip Warm Up

    Pre-run warm up, sorted. Join professional British marathoner Lily Partridge for her Lower Leg + Hip Warm Up — a routine designed with and for Lily to activate your lower legs and glutes, loosen up your hips, and ease any overnight stiffness. You'll wake up your key running muscles and movement p...

  • Workout Day Warm Up

    Use this dynamic warm up to encourage turnover while connecting your mind, body, and breath. Incorporates low reps to hit all your key running muscles quickly including activation for your glutes, back, and core to help you get the most out of the miles ahead.
    - Focus: warm up, performance
    - Key ...

  • Power Your Push Off

    Your glutes are the Boss of your "push off," so make sure they're doing their job. Use this routine to activate and strengthen your butt while mimicking forward motion to add stability and power to your stride.
    - Focus: strength, performance
    - Key muscles: hips, glutes
    - When: pre-run or cross-tr...

  • Align Your Stride

    Get ready to run! Use this quick pre-workout routine to warm up your breath and key muscles, create fluidity through your hamstrings and hips, and align your stride for the miles ahead.
    - Focus: warm up
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips
    - When: pre-run

  • How To Activate Your Glutes

    A few minutes spent activating and strengthening your glutes will add power to your stride and any workout. Use this routine to wake up and strengthen your butt!
    - Focus: strength, performance
    - Key muscles: glutes
    - When: pre-workout or cross-training

  • Balance Your Lower Body

    One of the most common lower body imbalances is weak glutes, which fire a chain reaction of imbalances, usually affecting your hamstrings next.

    Use this practice to self-test whether your glutes are doing their job, activate and strengthen these critical muscles, and stretch tight, overworked ha...