Warm Up Stretches for Shoulder Exercises

Video Transcript

Hello, I'm Kyle Brayer and this is Karie, and today we'll be going over the in-home shoulder workout. The shoulder is made up of the front, medial and rear deltoid. In order to warm those muscles up and warm your body up performing jumping jacks and some standing arm circles would be appropriate. In order to stretch your shoulders we're just going to have Karie bring her left arm across her body. She puts her hand behind her tricep, above her elbow and she's just going to hold this position. Again, while body position doesn't seem important on this, everything that Karie does in her stretching, she's going to keep her spine in inline-neutral position, she's going to be looking forward, try not to jerk her head to the left or right. She's going to have her feet at shoulder distance apart, then she'll switch. You're going to hold these stretches for about 30 seconds, making sure you breathe in and out through the entire stretch. Alright and down. Just to demonstrate an arm circle she's going to have her arms out to either side and she's going to rotate forward making small circles for a warm up. It's always good if you can step on a treadmill or go for a walk to just increase your heart rate before you do any muscular exercise, but that will conclude your warm up and stretch.