Name: Playbook - KICK IT With Kay - COOL DOWN STRETCH: UPPER BODY
Uploaded: 2024-01-01T12:36:36.844Z
Duration: 6 min
Description: COOL DOWN STRETCH: UPPER BODY

We often neglect stretching post workout but it’s SO crucial for recovery! It also reduces soreness! 


Here’s some of my favorite static stretches post workout for upper body. 

You can change the order/timing of each. This is just my preference!

- Start on your hands and feet, with both shoulder width apart
- Press into your hands with a flat back and your glutes up

-really think about widening and stretching your back here!

downward dog

- Starting on your knees with a flat back reach your hands out in front of you

Mobility- childs pose

- Starting on your knees with a flat back reach your hands out in front of you
-turn your head to rest on your right cheek. thread right arm under your body to the opposite side 

-repeat on the other side

Child’s pose w reach through

-start in tummy
-Cross left foot behind you to floor on the opposite side (getting a twist in that lower back) 
-try to keep chest close to floor as possible & keep arm on the floor stretched out to the side and push into that stretch to feel it in the chest

Repeat on other side

Chest opener (No idea the name of this)

Tricep Stretch

Cross Body Bicep Stretch

Using light pressure stretch your neck to the left for 10 seconds, right for 10, and down in the middle for 10

COOL DOWN STRETCH: UPPER BODY

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