Keeping Loose for Marathons

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Barbara Coradin with Energy Fitness in New York City and today I'm going to show you how to train for a marathon. Another thing we need to think about when we are training for a marathon is really keeping our upper body loose and stretched as well. So somethings you might want to include in your stretch routine before and after your runs is extending your arms completely forward, feet are together knees are slightly bent. Abs are in your bring your left hand over, you just drop that shoulder for me, relax the right arm, stretching the shoulder and then of course you want to always switch on both sides of your body as even as possible. You may also want to bring the arms around you to the back, bring the right palm in front of the left hand, pull down, you want to really think about knees are slightly bent and back is straight. Releasing those shoulders you want to keep as much distance between your shoulders and your ear. A good thing to remember is the more relaxed you are the more stretched out that you are the more efficiently you would run and the faster you would get to the marathon finish line. "