Warm Up Stretches for Shoulder Exercises

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce your general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote the health of your body and mind.

While there are a number of exercises that can strengthen and work your shoulders to give them more mobility, some people don't have access to weight machines or the time to make it to the gym. In this free video series, a trainer and conditioning specialist will teach you a number of in-home shoulder exercises. Starting with stretches, you'll move on to military presses and rowing exercises, as well as a number of deltoid raises. You'll also learn how to do 3-ways, steering wheels, and arm circles. By following these training tips for working out the shoulders, you'll see results by the time you make it home!

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. "