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This next stretch is called it's a relaxed, bend over, let the arms sway stretch. What
this does it gets your back loose; it helps you loosen up your shoulders and arms, and
basically it helps stretch your gluteus maximus; your butt muscles. You just let your arms
hang over. You want to walk your knees in. Don't bend your knees, and just kind of relax.
Just let your arms hang. It's kind of like an elephant trunk, right, just swaying back
and forth, just kind of relaxing. What I like to do is after a few seconds of just letting
your arms relax here, I Iike to pick it up and then go down even further and let your
arms sway, until you're almost touching your toes. If you have long finger you might go
past your toes, but you don't grab your toes yet. You just kind of let it hang, and relax,
and put your head down, and you can feel the back of your legs stretch. The back of your
legs are now becoming limber. Show it to me from the side next time. Then I'll turn to
the side, and just so you can kind of see what I mean, you keep your legs locked, you
stretch it down, and you're stretching the back here. Everything from your gluteus maximus
down to the back of your heels, you're just kind of letting your arms sway. As you'll
see you'll begin to loosen up. You'll almost be like a rubber band. Then I like to pick
it up again, and now I'm feeling like my body is really getting loose, and then I just go
back down again. Just kind of straddle along the sides of your feet, just kind of let your
hands sway and as you can see, I'm going further and further down to the floor. Your arms sway,
and you're just kind of relaxing, and you're loose. You just come back up, and you go slowly
every time you stand up out of a stretch. You do it slowly because you can tweak your
muscles if you move too fast, even out of a stretch, even after warming up.