Modern Dance Warm-Ups: Arm Strengthening

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Chell Garcia-Trias and I'm a modern dance instructor in Austin, Texas. I'm going to show you how to do some arm strengthening exercises where we have our arms and our feet on the ground. So first of all I'm going to put my feet in a parallel position where they are six inches to a foot apart and then I'm going to put my hands on the ground about two maybe three feet in front of them. So that I am comfortable and I'm going to drop my head and I'm going to bend my knees and now I'm just going to start with my weight equally distributed between my hands and feet. And then I'm going to shift the weight to the front to the hands and then shift the weight to the back to my feet and shift the weight to the front to my hands and to the back to my feet. And there is kind of a circular motion here that is happening and I'm really pushing all the way on to my hands and all the way on to my feet and reaching through my crown of my head and through my tail bone. So this is going to strengthen our arms and also increase the connection between the crown of our head and our tail bone and back. When I'm done I'll just gently walk my hands back to my feet and bend my knees and roll up the spine. That's a great way to do some arm strengthening exercises in modern dance."