Stretching

I will make this description short and sweet. If people would do this routine every day, they would feel SO MUCH BETTER! 

I like to tell people to think of mobility as your foundation to help open up the body and allow you to feel less pain and less restriction. This 30 minute routine is a great way to get you moving, get you opening up, and get you feeling better in your body!

Add these stretches into your daily or weekly regimen to help with tight hips, low back pain, hunched upper back, poor posture, and too much sitting.

There are many great benefits to foam rolling. You may think that foam rolling is just for serious athletes but that's not the case. A regular foam-rolling routine helps prevent those often too common exercise-related injuries. Many runners, for example, become painfully well acquainted with their IT band if they don't take care to massage the band of tissue. IT band syndrome and other similar flare-ups can be caused by too-tight muscles. Foam rolling every day ensures you are massaging away fascia buildup in your muscles, in order to help prevent those areas from becoming injury trigger points. Foam rolling also helps keep you more flexible and less stressed. Remember the more regularly you use a foam roll on your tight muscles, the less painful it'll be.

Here is a standing lower body routine and upper body routine. These moves can be done when you don't have a mat or if you're short on space or time.

Stretching and flexibility training has many benefits. It helps reduce the risk of injury and it also reduces muscle tension and stress. It improves circulation, muscle elasticity, posture, mental alertness, and so much more. While it contributes so much value to our fitness program, it is unfortunately the most overlooked component. This 18 minute video will stretch all the major muscles in the body and allow you to improve your flexibility and reduce your stress.

If you are on a computer all day then watch this video where I show 3 different stretches to help prevent tendonitis.

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