So, we need to stretch. It's very important to stretch post workout. This is when you want to stretch versus stretching before the workout. Notice that my warm up didn't really involve stretching, that's because we loose elasticity in our muscles, if we just go straight to stretching and don't actually get some strength exercise going in our muscles. So, now we're going to stretch because we've already done our cardio workout. Let's start with some of our major muscle groups. Our quads, pull our heel up to our butt. Rotate through the hip, making sure to stay nice and tall when lifted, keeping those abs contracted and lifted. Good, keep breathing, while your stretching and hold this for 30 seconds. You want to do the other side obviously, but to jump to the next stretch, you're also going to want to stretch your hamstrings or the back of your legs, so a nice hamstring stretch is to flex your foot, put it out at a diagonal, bend the right leg, place your hands on your right thigh and then reach towards your left. Notice that my back is flat and not bent over hunched, so i want to keep that back flat and hinge at the hips. Alright? We're going to hold that one for 30 seconds as well and do the other side. Some good arm stretches are to bring your shoulder across your chest. Stretching out the deltoids and the other side, and then the triceps, bringing our elbow up placing the other arm pressing against the elbow and reaching back. Doing it on the other side and then stretch to stretch out your biceps, you can find a wall, place your hand on the wall and then twist this way so that the resistance stretches out your chest and biceps together. Good! Anything else you might need to stretch like your inner thighs or your outer thighs, that's also a great thing to stretch. So, we can come down like this, pressing our legs out, stretching our inner thighs, and then we can also stretch our outer thighs by just gently sticking our hip out towards the side and stretching that whole outer area. Last thing, you might want to stretch your obliques. We've worked those a little bit after twisting and reaching so you just place your arm up and over, stretch out the side, hold it and then the other side and you can also implement breathing, inhale up and exhale. Inhale come back up and exhale finish. Great.
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