Do This Stretch First Thing EVERY Morning (INSTANT RELIEF!)

If you wake up with stiff, tight muscles and wish there was a single simple stretch you could do that would make you feel amazing, you have come to the right video. Here I’m going to show you one simple stretch to do the first thing every single morning to loosen up your hips, back and shoulders tha

What’s up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere. Athleanx. com. So  when you wake up in the morning, if you look at all like this, I’m talking about the gyrations  that I’m going through here, the twists, the stretches, the tightness in the hip flexors,  right, the back just does feel like you can’t even move it or turn it at all.

If that is you, then I  have the solution for you here. Because I’m going to show you one thing— and I know there’s some  other things I gave you in the past to do in the morning, but this is the one thing if you have  really no time at all to drop down on the floor and do because this is going to fix a lot of those  issues that you’re feeling in one shot. All right, so with that being said, got a new feature here. A lot of sports channels of the replays and telestrations, well, we have something called the  telestriation. Don’t worry, it’s cool.

All right, so what’s this exercise? Now, first of all, as  I said you’re going to be on the floor to do it, and every single person can do this. It  doesn’t matter what your strength level is, what your ability level is. You can do this. All right, and the thing is you got to first think about what might be getting a little bit  tight and screwed up when you sleep overnight.

Because you’re sleeping for maybe six,  eight, ten hours— Jesse, 14 hours— and you got to undo some of that because we tend  to get really stiff. Well, think about it, if my arms are by my side like they probably are,  we’re going to get some lat tightness because that’s where we stayed there the whole night. If I sink into the bed at all— which if it’s soft enough you will— you’re going to get some  rounding of that thoracic spine. Your hips are also going to sink in a little bit too so they’re  going to be in a little bit of flection, okay, so they’re not fully straightened out. So you  get some hip flexor tightness.

You’re not really rotating. You might like to lay on your side, but  you’re not keeping your torso here and turning from the top to get actual rotation through the  thoracic spine so you can get tight there too. So we can fix all these things and this is what it  is. The exercise is the bridge reach-over. Okay, so now, what is so great about this?

Well, this  is where we want to start breaking down piece by piece. And this is where I say, Hey, boom,  right there, and I freeze it. And now I have the opportunity to break out my telestriation. Hey, hey, hey, that’s my idea! Jesse, it is Jesse’s idea actually, but it’s a good one.

So now look what’s happening here. First of all, I’m pushing through the heels, all right. And I’m  trying to drive up in that direction. But what it does is it enforces this glute activation. And not  just that, because we have the knees bent here, we get hamstring and glute coactivation, which  is how they always prefer to work.

People tend to let the hamstrings dominate, they don’t let  the glutes do enough of the work, and that’s what leads to an overload on the hamstrings and a lot  of hamstring strain. So at least you’re training this to work in the way it prefers to work. But  beyond that, look at the hip extension I get. I actually get even a little bit of a bow at the  top because I’m getting all the way through. And a lot of times we don’t ever really extend  fully through to the top, and we know again, just a little bit of flection at night we need  to get through that to feel like we’re getting rid of that tightness.

So we have activation  here in the glutes. But beyond that, what’s happening here with the lats? The lats are getting  stretched out in that direction. Arm up overhead, right? Attached to the top of the humerus here,  separated from the hip itself.

These two points getting further and further apart from each other  here like that. And now we have some stretch on the lat so that second problem is done. And then  when we look here, this is the key for me. We get thoracic extension and we get the rotation in this  direction. So if I clear that off, we can see it a little bit better.

Again, extension and rotation  because I got to reach to the opposite side. So in one move we’re getting all of that. And by the  way, very little rotation here at the lumbar spine because we know that we don’t want to try to do  that. We don’t get rotation from the lumbar spine. It stays in alignment with the hips.

We’re just  reaching up and getting the rotation from where it should come from, which is the thoracic spine. So again, you alternate here. If we go back and take a look at what it looks like, one side to the  other like that, each time drive it up as high as you can, push through the right leg to reach over  to the opposite side, push through the left leg to reach over to this side. An amazing exercise that,  again, any person can do. Drop down on the floor in the morning, do five to each side, maybe do it  twice, you’re good to go.

So there you have it, guys, a quick stretch that you can do every  single morning that’s going to undo a lot of the things that are happening when you sleep  to make you feel a hell of a lot better and get you off on your day in the right direction. Guys,  remember, if you’re looking for programs where we build all of these things into everything we do  because it all matters. How you feel not just during your workout but after your workout may  be even more important. All of our programs are available over at Athleanx. com.

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