Warm ups and cool downs#247

What can I do to warm up for exercising and cooling down after? I know people should stretch to cool down but what stretches?

Hampton has a video on warming up

For stretches during a cool down, it depends on what muscles you worked out! Any muscles that put in work should get a good stretch.

Honestly, anything you do for a warm up, you can also do for a cool down! The idea is to increase blood flow, which readies your muscles pre-workout and promotes recovery post-workout.

Just in case though, here are a couple of solid stretch routines for the upper and lower body.

Upper body:

Lower body:

If you did a full-body workout that has both upper and lower body exercises, you could do a full-body stretch routine:

I follow these, and they seem to be working pretty great :)
In some future release of the app, can similar things be included? Basically, appropriate warmup and cool down exercises based on the workouts that are being suggested for that day.

I started using hybrid calisthenics as a complete beginner around 2 weeks ago and I was following the app blindly. But, a friend asked me to do proper warm up and cool down exercises (like I said, being a complete noob, I had no idea 🥲). So, having a few of these movements built into the daily routines would be great for people like me!