Prevent Pulling Muscles In Your Back And Chest With Back And Chest Stretches

Warm up for a couple minutes with some jump rope, jumping jacks, or running. Get your blood flowing. Let your body know its going to get moving.

We will start our chest and back stretches with some static stretches. Then we will move on to some ballistics stretches to get our body well prepared for an intense workout. We will do some neck stretches too.

Hold each stretch 10 seconds.

Side Stretch

Spread your legs. Reach your right arm above and over your head. Bend at your hip and lean towards your left side. Reach your right arm over as far as you can. Switch sides.

Sitting Back Stretch

Sit on the floor. Bend both your legs and place your left foot under your bent right knee. Turn to your right and put your left elbow on your knee and push. Switch sides.

Back and Chest Stretch

Clasp your hands in front of you and roll your shoulders forward. Clasp your hands behind and push down rolling your shoulders back. Repeat twice.

Arm Circles

Hold your arms out to your sides and start making small circles in the forward direction. Do this 10 times then go backwards 10 times. Then make the circles bigger, going forward 10 times and back 10 times.

Huggers

Relax your arms and swing them away from your body, then across your body like you are going to give yourself a hug.

Neck Stretch

Reaching your hands down, tilt your head to the right. Roll your neck down and tilt it to the left. Repeat 10 times.

Roll your neck back to the right and look up. Roll back to the left and look up. Repeat 10 times.

Alright, you have done your chest and back stretches. Your body is prepped for some intense chest exercises and back exercises.

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