When it comes to burning fat and losing weight, we are often told to eat less and move more.
The advice that is centered around moving more almost always recommends intense cardiovascular workouts, weightlifting, and full body toning.
However, stretching is almost always left out of the recommendations, which is unfortunate because it can improve your metabolism, help with muscle building and even improve your blood circulation.
With this said, if you are looking to burn fat, choose to add in a few of the below stretches to give yourself an extra edge.
1. The Seated Twist: this is excellent for targeting the abs, oblique’s, and lower back.
It is relatively easy to complete too! Sit down on the floor and stretch one leg in front of you.
Bend the other one at the knee and cross it over your outstretched leg.
Then slowly twist your body towards the bent knee and hold.
2. The Side Lunge: this stretch will target your hamstrings, your quads, and your hip flexors.
You complete this stretch in the same way you would complete a side lunge as an exercise but instead of going all the way down to the floor, you hold the position.
3. The Bridge: this is extremely good for the abs, the legs, the glutes, and the hips.
Now, this exercise does take a lot more flexibility to complete, so if you can’t do it right away just keep on practising and increasing your flexibility.
To do this exercise, lie on your back with your arms stretched out to your sides and bend your knees approximately ninety degrees.
Lift your body upwards, keeping your upper back on the floor and hold the pose.
4. The Inner Thigh Stretch: this is an excellent stretch for increasing your flexibility.
It also releases a lot of tension that gets built up in the inner thighs.
To do this stretch, sit on the floor with your back straight and bring the soles of your feet together.
Press down on your legs/knees with your arms and stretch out the pull.
5. Tricep Stretch: the body tends to keep a lot of stress in the back and the shoulders, so with this stretch you can target these areas and remove some of the tension.
To do this pose, stand up straight with your feet apart and stretch your arms towards the sky.
Bend one of your elbows above your head and grab a hold of it with the opposite hand. Gently pull your elbow towards your head and hold.
6. The Bow: this is an amazing stretch that targets both your back, your abs, and your hips.
It is extremely easy to perform as all you need to do is lie down on your stomach, stretch your arms back and take hold of your ankles.
Keep your shoulders down and hold the pose.
The reason why you should be adding in stretching exercises to your weight loss routine is that they can help you burn calories, they will improve your metabolism, they will release stress, and they will help build up your muscles by giving them time to recover.
It is extremely important to work your body out hard, eat properly, but also recover in the right way so that the weight loss that you do lose remains lost.
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