Hey, I’m Dr. Travis Owens with Airrosti, and if you’re working from home, there’s likely a chance that you’re spending some time also with some of your favorite animals, right, so your pets. Well my favorite animals also happen to be some of my favorite stretches, and so if you’re stuck at home working from your desk, and need some time to get up and move around and stretch out a bit, I’d like to show you a few stretches that include animal names that will help you to remember them so that you can feel great working from home. So, the first thing we’re going to show you is called a cat-cow. From here, you’re going to get down onto all fours, with your hands directly underneath your shoulders, and your knees directly underneath your hips. Take a deep breath in, tuck your chin, and round your back, just like a cat. Then from here, we’re going to exhale lift our hips and our chest, and look up towards the sky, looking like kind of an old cow with a saggy back.
So breathe in, and breathe out. Now, for our second stretch, an alligator. I love alligators. I’m from Florida, alligators all the way. For this stretch, we’re gonna lay on our side, bring our knees up to a 90-degree bend with the hip. With our hands directly in front of us, we reach open, rotating through our upper back, and close back down. If you want to modify this a bit, you can shorten up your alligator snout, and you can open here. Again, long or short. We would do that on both sides. The next one I want to show you is called a puppy dog. So, most people are familiar with a downward dog, or a child’s pose, both yoga movements. If we combine those, the dog with the child we get a puppy. So, a downward dog is with the hips raised, and a child’s pose is sitting on our knees. So if we combine those, we would stay high with the hips, reach forward with the arms, and drop our chest towards the floor. We can also try to work towards the face or the throat, being down towards the ground, but the thing we want there is to feel a stretch through our lats, the front of the shoulder, and also through our chest.
And lastly is the stork stretch. Now, this is to stretch out our thighs and our hip flexors. For this, if you need balance help, make sure to grab something to hold on to. If not, feel free to try it out in the open. Simply grab your foot, bring the knee back towards the other knee, and keep your hips square. This should feel a stretch in the front of your hip, down toward your knee, and again. For balance purposes, if you need to use a wall, that’s perfectly fine. For these stretches, if it’s one of the static hold stretches, we have you hold those for about 30 to 60 seconds, which would be like our stork stretch and our puppy dog. And for our moving stretches, we would do those ten reps for the alligator, ten reps of both sides.
And for our cat-cow, ten rounding and ten sticking our chest back out. I truly hope these stretches help you loosen up if you’re working from home, and I hope that you enjoy doing these with your favorite animals, hopefully they don’t jump all over you. But, if you’re ever having any pain or discomfort of any type, make sure to reach out to your local Airrosti provider so that we can help you with that, and we will catch you on our next video..
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