But this movie wasn't some kind of warm-up exercise.

We do warm-up exercises, and inter-technical drills, like passing the ball round mannequins, and practising different turns and movements.

The party then marches on to the first hunt for small fowl in the snow-covered country, a warm-up exercise only intended to secure appetizers for dinner.

To reduce the risk, in the weeks before you travel, do daily warm-up exercises (see graphic, below) to improve core fitness and hamstring and quad strength.

He can't have been more than five or six but, rather than just stand there in the cold, he joined the players in their repertoire of stretching and warm-up exercises.