Chest Stretch - How To Do It Correctly!
prevent injury by using these chest stretches.
Your chest is one of the most important parts of your body, and the most visible. A well built chest will always attract attention from onlookers.
To ensure that you continue working-out regularly, it is important that you do chest stretch. Proper stretching will make sure that you do not pull your muscles, and so you can continue working-out regularly.
The reason I am saying you need to do chest warm up is because chest exercises are usually weight intensive. You will be pumping heavy weights as part of your chest exercises; so chest stretches have to be done before you begin your main workout.
Your chest stretching exercises should be part of your overall stretching routine, which should be for around 5-7 minutes.
Best Chest Stretching Exercises!
Here are some chest stretches which you can do before you start your main intense workout. These include some neck stretches as well.
Hold each stretch for around 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.
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.
Once you are done with these chest stretching exercises, you are reading to begin your intense chest workout routine. You can get started with these best chest exercises.
Summary
Stretching exercises is a must before you begin your main workout. Devote around 5-7 minutes for stretches and try to stretch all your major body parts. The sample chest stretches provided here shows the right way to do chest warm up. Increase your flexibility and prevent injury by using these chest stretching exercises.
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