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n. a regime of gentle exercise undertaken before some strenuous exercise or sport vb. (present participle of warm up English)
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Warming Up is a long-running daily blog and podcast, written by British comedian and writer Richard Herring. A substantial entry has been made every day since 25 November 2002 and on audio each day since 22 June 2011.
Herring originally wanted to use the exercise to help him overcome his writer’s block and to kick-start a day of writing. The blog documents moments from his daily life and his reflections upon them, often as practice for his job of writing humorous material.
Some subjects covered in Warming Up are often reframed in Herring's weekly Metro newspaper column. Similarly, some of the ideas written in his blog have been used in his live stand up shows since 2005. It also proved a useful source for his 2010 book How Not To Grow Up.
In 2005, Herring attempted to convert Warming Up into a sitcom called Blog but it was not commissioned. The pilot script can be seen in The Box Lady and Other Pesticles (see below).
From 20 February 2014 Richard chose a blog each week to read as a segment fellow presenter Lou Sanders named 'Dicky's Diary' for The Richard Herring Show on Fubar Radio.
The blog has a regular readership of over 3,000.
Warming Up is a 1983 Australian film about a divorced woman who moves to a country town and teaches the local football team to dance ballet. It was made by the team responsible for the TV show A Country Practice.
Warming Up ( 1928) is a baseball film starring Richard Dix and Jean Arthur, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, and released by Paramount Pictures in the Movietone sound system as Paramount's first sound film.
The film was released in a silent version and a sound version. The sound version had synchronized music and sound effects without dialogue.
The film featured several major league baseball players as themselves.
Usage examples of "warming up".
A distinctive whine could be heard in the background -- his industrial-strength kiln warming up to imprint three brute-class dittos at a time.
At length some supper, which had been warming up, was placed on the table, and then old Lobbs fell to, in regular style.
These calculations agree with the known variations in the Earth's temperature, and it seems particularly likely that the Earth's warming up after ice ages is due to increased warmth from the sun, thanks to these three astronomical cycles.