Warm Up Stretches For Chest Exercises Video

Loosen up for chest exercises with warm up stretches. Learn how to strengthen the chest and pectorals with this free workout video.

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Kyle Brayer is a certified trainer and a sports conditioning specialist. He is also the owner of Epic Fitness and a former U.S. Marine.

Hello I am Kyle Brayer and this is Carrie and today we are going to be going over the in-home chest work out. Just like any other muscle group, especially the chest because it is a larger muscle group, you need to warm up your body and warm up your chest. So you can start with a nice walk on a treadmill with a with an incline, doing some jumping jacks or some other calisthethenics or push ups would help warm up those chest muscles. Once they are nice and warm because you never want to stretch a cold muscle, we will our basic stretches. Carrie is going to start out with her chest stretch. She is going to interlace her fingers behind her back. She is going to pull her arms up nice and slow and if you have a partner that can add a little resistance this will help pull in the deltoid and up in the chest. You want to hold all these stretches for about 30 seconds or longer, adding tension, and then when the tension goes away you can add a little more tension. Next she will do her back stretch so she is going to face the front. Interlace your fingers and roll her back forward, with her palms facing away, her arms are nice and locked out. She is keeping good posture and she will feel this down her back, again for about 30 seconds. Last she will reach down and touch her toes and this just helps work that lower back, the core region that is going to be involved during her chest work outs. Alright and during all that she is breathing through the stretches. She is adding tension and then when that tension starts to go away she is adding a little more tension making sure she continues to breathe. That should be sufficient for your warm up and stretching.

Warm Up Stretches for Chest Exercises Video

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