Be Well: How This Routine Stretching Program Can Boost Your Mobility

<div class="block">A regular stretching routine not only keeps you limber but also gives a boost to your mobility. Angel Wooden, StretchLab flexologist, joined Cheddar News to share a few key stretches you can do at home. </div>

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Check me out. I'm getting my stretch on and stretch lads and Angel A flexo is making sure I can walk out here with perfect mobility. But what if you don't have Angel or someone to help stretch you out? Well, she's gonna help get you right today. So Angel, it's all about stretching and making sure people have mobility. So what are the three things that people have a problem with the most when they come to you next back? Hips? Ok. So how about you? Show me some stretches you guys would do here for the neck, back and hips start with the neck. So the neck, we're gonna lay back, ok? When you're here, we do stretches here for the neck. So we do what we call a neck pole and we just separate your head from your shoulder and we pull across very gently good. That feels good, good. And we relax, beautiful. Now, when we're going in for the hips, we sit back up nice and halfway, sit back up good. Now you're gonna open those hips like that this and bend the knees into you good and that's it. We're gonna reach down for them, let the hips fall to the side just like that and reach down for them. Oh, I never do this at home. Oh, that's right. Yes. So you can come back good. You put those legs all the way straight and now this is for the back end of the legs and we're gonna reach again and we're gonna push and I'm gonna give you some assistance and breathe in and out. Oh, yeah, I feel that. Ok? But if people wanted to do maintenance at home before they come here, what are some of the things that we could do for those same neck? Back and legs? All right. So we're gonna sit down here. We're gonna place our hand here, place our hand heel, pull the shoulder, not the neck, ok? Pull the shoulder down good and that's for our neck. Ok? But you were just lightly guiding with our top hand, you're just holding with the top hand pulling only with that hand on the shoulder. No head pull. Ok. Good. You gonna relax that there? Good, right? So we're gonna stand right. So that was for the neck, that's for the neck. Now for the hips, we're gonna reach all the way down and keep them nice and straight. Ok. So we're trying to touch our toes trying to touch the toes, push the hips back. Yeah. Also feel in the leg all the way up here. Oh yeah, they're gonna get back up good. This is good for the stretch, the legs and the back. It's really good all the way. And then we do some leg swings that'll also help the leg and the hips and open up the, open up the hip swinging, right. So you can go front the back just like that ready. So we turn a little bit. Does my leg go all the way back? It does. So we wanna get this, do this with me here. So we're gonna go front back. This. This isn't like, oh here we go, we're gonna hold on. Right. This isn't a swing kick. No, that's why I'm like, you're not gonna go. It's nice and gentle. Nice and gentle. Keeping that core there, front to back. Right. Good. Nice and gentle. All right.