Good warmup for warm active fingers and relaxed wrists?

[henk de potvis]

Normally I just start practicing normally until my fingers are warm/active and my wrists become relaxed. I do find that that takes a relatively long time and I make mistakes practicing which I would not have made warmed up. Does anyone have a good 5 minute warmup for warm active fingers and for relaxed wrists?

[dizzyfingers]

It doesn't so much matter what you play at ground zero (for that day) as how you play ... meaning, play slowly and carefully, anything will do - your old pieces, or something simple (mentally) like a Czerny study,  Chopin studies are a bit much to warm up with, imo.  To wake up the brain play Bach preludes and fugues.  Also, playing hands alone is a good way to start your practicing - again, slowly and carefully.

Many older pianists like to warm up their hands and arms doing stretches, that may seem too unnecessary / uninteresting for someone your age though.

[ted]

I seldom feel any need to warm up but if I do my Virgil Practice Clavier gets the mechanism going very quickly.