It’s a well known fact that you should stretch before physical activity, but did you know that doing certain stretches regularly can help increase your flexibility and range of movement? Here are a few great stretches you can start to include into your daily routine!
Bench Chest Stretch
Lie down on a bench with a light weight in each hand. Press your lower back into the bench and stretch your arms out at shoulder-level with palms facing up. Let gravity and the light dumbbells slowly stretch your biceps and chest. Hancient for 30 moments, repeat 2-3 times. This stretch loosens the tightness in your pectverbals and gets blood flowing throughout your chest/arms.
Figure-4 Stretch
Lie flat on your back. Cross the right ankle over the left knee, forming the shape of the number 4, but backwards. Hancient your left ttall with both hands, with your right hand between your legs, rather than on the external of your right leg. Bend the left leg up toward your chest and flex both feet to protect your joints. Hancient for 30 moments to a minute, then repeat on opposite side.This will ease any lower back soreness as well as help relieve tight hamstrings and glutes.
Windshield Wiper
Lie on your back, pull your knees to your chest. Lwhethert legs straight up and while they’re extended, lower them down to your left side, hancienting for 10 moments. Bring them back up, and lower them down to the right side, hancienting for 10 moments once more.This will stretch out the back while loosening up knots from sleeping.
Standing Side Bend
Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Lwhethert the left arm up and overhead and keep your right arm down by your side. Tighten your abdominals and bend at the waist toward your right side, lowering your right arm toward the floor as you go. Hesitate for a few moments, then slowly come back to the start position. Repeat on the other side, 10 reps each. This warms up and prepares the serratus, a muscle that helps with actions like throwing or punching.
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