Daily stretching routines to improve flexibility and strength

Working on improving your flexibility by exercising or practicing yoga will always provide you good benefits

It’s been almost 1 year and a half that I’ve been practicing strechting routines (especially yoga) to improve my flexibility because I used to have frequent back pain and felt I was « heavy » at times (even though I’ve never been overweight). 

As a matter of fact, two years ago, my doctor advised me to practice either swimming, cycling or stretching regularly to reduce my back pain. Among the sports I’ve been told to banish : Running. Indeed, he told me that running involves jerky motion and leads to additional pain to your spine since it damages discs in the back. The repetitive impact isn’t good if practiced at a too high intensity level. Well I guess that for me, running is not adapted to my body structure but we’re not all the same :) 

In any case, stretching  after a long cardio workout is never a waste of your time, it helps stabilize the spine and keep you from injuring your back.

Now that I’ve been doing daily yoga exercises, I felt much better in my body but also, this helped me reduce stress. I no longer have any lower back pain or anything. But it took time before I got to this point but no matter where you start, you know that it’ll improve. 

Even if it’s only 5 minutes a day, take baby steps, start small (slowly but surely) and that’s how you’re gonna be able to improve your flexibility, strength and feel good about your body and spirit :)

Tips on how you can slowly start a fluid stretching routine and notice improvements in your flexibility and endurance 

- Take at least 5 minutes to workout or stretch even though you feel that it’s nothing much of a workout. For example, I used to do this exercise as a first step (check it out here) 

Fitness Blender is a channel which deliver daily workouts videos for every goal and parts of the body you need to improve. I advised you to take a look at all their videos, there’s either Hiit Workouts (high intensity intervals training) or low impact when you need to start a workout routine. 

- Then, take the next step and up your level and difficulty. I've been doing this one so many times since it's a good compromise between time (only 13 minutes) and strength intensity (it'll make you sweat a little bit)

- Remeber that you have to stick to at least 21 days, that’s the minimum amount of time it takes to form a new habit (according by Science)

- Always take deep breath to release stress. Breathing is part of a workout, it helps you loose belly and weight.

Don't worry, you will succeed in accomplishing whatever you want if you're consistent and willing to achieve your goals ! Keep it up ;))

Exercises I do frequently :  

From Fitness Blender : 

Calming Stretching Workout after a stressful work (13 minutes) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsQr7YOq7o

Relaxing Stretching Workout for Flexibility and Stress Relief (35 minutes) :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_Pn7NyJ0k

Streching, Pilates Yoga Workout Blend to relieve back pain (25 minutes) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VXIVZXYyFo

From Boho beautiful : 

Morning Yoga Workout (15 minutes) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX6I6vs1EFs

From PsycheTruth (advanced) : 

1 Hour Weight Loss Yoga Workout : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZA2C1N95Os

Full Body Yoga : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba2ejVWX7vA