The 9 Best Morning Stretching Exercises To Get That Sleepy Body Moving

Doing morning stretching exercises is the perfect way to wake up and fire your whole body up for the day ahead.

Doing morning stretching exercises increases blood flow to your muscles, helps your digestive, circulatory, respiration and nervous systems. Better yet a good regular stretching routine will reduce stress and help you lose weight if done as part of an eating and work out plan.

So all in all doing morning stretches is a very positive way to begin each day!

The list below is hardly exhaustive but I hope it gives you some ideas. Also of course you may have certain areas of your body that you feel need warming up more than others, for me for example it's my legs, I do a lot of aerobics and body pump in the weekday evenings so often feel a bit stiff first thing. In the past I've also had some Achilles and groin strain problems so I like to do stretches for those areas so that I never get those nasty problems again so for me I also add some good leg and calf stretching.

Morning Stretch 1

An excellent general easy leg stretch and my favourite as it will do several parts of the leg at once.

1) Kneel with 1 foot on the floor and set your weight over the knee.
2) Using your heel on the ground lean forwards.
3) This stretch can put a fair bit of stress on your Achilles so lean in to it bit by bit.

4) Keep in the stretch for at least twenty seconds, then repeat with your opposite leg.

If you want, you'll find you can put some pressure to the thigh area and so get some groin stretching going too. Never push to hard, it is meant to be a morning stretch, loosen up or down or rehab exercise rather than a dancers flexibility exercise. I think it is to be quite relaxing and comfortable.

Morning Stretch two

1) Sit on the side of your bed with your feet on the floor.
2) Bend over, reaching both hands toward the feet.
3) Arch your back.
4) Hold for a count of 10.
5) Do five more times.

Morning Stretch 3

1) Stay seated to the edge of your bed using your feet on the floor.
2) Turn your neck in a circle, touching your ears to your shoulders.
3) Move slowly on a clockwise direction 5 times.
4) Move slowly in a counter clockwise direction five times.

Morning Stretch four

1) Remain seated on the edge of the seat with your feet on the ground.
2) Shrug shoulders up to your head.
3) Repeat ten more times.

Morning stretching exercises five

1) Stand next to your bed.
2) Lace your fingers together.
3) Raise both hands above the head, palms up.
4) Lift up stretching your rib cage.
5) Hold for a count of 10.
6) Repeat 5 more times

Morning Stretch six

1) Remain standing next to your bed.
2) Bend over and touch your fingers to the toes while keeping your knees straight.
3) Maintain for a count of ten.
4) Do 5 more times.

Morning Stretch 7

1) Lie flat on the ground
2) Set your arms at your side
3) Slowly raise your legs above your head
4) Continue to lift up your legs till your toes touch the floor behind your head
5) Hold the position for 15 seconds
6) Do three times

Morning Stretch 8

1) Lie flat on your stomach
2) Pushup with both of your arms bending back
3) Carry on until your arms are straight
4) Hold the position for fifteen seconds
5) Do three times

Morning Stretch 9

1) Sit on the ground using your legs straight out before you
2) Stretch forward towards your toes
3) Carry on until a soft stretch is felt at the rear of your knees
4) Hold the position for 15 seconds
5) Repeat 3 times

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