Warm Up Stretches for Chest 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.

For many people, going to the gym or buying expensive weight machines isn't a practical option. In this free video series, a trainer and fitness expert will teach you how to do chest exercises at home. Strengthening and toning the pectoral muscles doesn't have to be difficult or time consuming, and these tips will show you how. You'll learn how to warm up for chest exercises, how to do a number of presses, and how to do push-ups with separate grips. With these techniques, you'll have a stronger chest in no time!

Video Transcript

"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."