These are some warm-up exercises you can do before sprinting: Jog in place. Steadily raise your heart rate instead of causing a sudden spike by jogging in place for a few minutes. Butt kicks.

Not only that but some research has found static stretching before sports like sprinting seems to harm performance; one study ...

studies show that static stretching leg muscles just before sprinting could actually slightly worsen performance. Instead, static stretching is commonly used at the end of a workout to enable ...