stretching routine

5-minute
daily stretch
5-minute daily stretch
Table of contents

introduction 3
Exercise 1: Cat Cow 4
Exercise 2: World’s Greatest Stretch 5
Exercise 3: Asian Squat 6
Shortcut Your Transformation! 7
Exercise 4: Half Kneeling
horacic Rotations 8
Exercise 5: Wall Slides 9
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS 10
DISCLAIMER 11

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introduction

This stretching routine is designed to mobilize the key areas where most people, due to our sedentary
lifestyles, have become tight and immobile. There’s 5 exercises we’ll use to do so. Each exercise should
take you about 1 minute to do. Within that minute for each exercise, try to do as many quality reps as
you can. But take it slow, focus on your form, and feel the various muscles being stretched.

Exercise REP. DURATION

Cat Cow 60 seconds

World’s Greatest Stretch 30 seconds per side

as many quality
30 seconds hold, 30
reps as you can
Asian Squat
seconds rock side to side

Half Kneeling
30 seconds
Thoracic Rotations

Wall Slides 60 seconds

For the best results, try to do this routine at least once a day. It can be done in the morning, during
the day as a break, at night before bed, or multiple times throughout the day. Choose whatever time
you’ll be most consistent with and stick to it! Implement this daily and you’ll feel better, your lifts will
improve, and you’ll likely soon notice an unlocking of tight and sleepy muscles that you may have never
even known existed.

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Exercise 1: Cat Cow
60 seconds
MAIN AREA(S) STRETCHED: START
SPINE

STEP 1
Get onto all fours with your knees under your hips
and hands under your shoulders. From here, in a
gentle motion, round your back up towards the ceiling
as if someone was pulling your mid-back up with
a rope. As you do this, take a deep breath in while
tucking your head down. Pause at the top position for
STEP 1
1 second.

STEP 2
Then, exhale as you reverse this motion by now
curving your back the opposite way while lifting your
head up. Pause at the bottom position for 1 second.
Each cycle (going from up to down) should take you
about 8 seconds to do. Try to get around 7-8 cycles
within your 1 minute time frame.
STEP 2

MODIFICATIONS
If you’re having trouble nailing down this motion
though, try placing a band around your mid-back. This
will help pull your spine into the bottom position and
then give you the resistance and sensory feedback
you may need to learn how to properly round your
spine upwards.
MODIFICATIONS

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Exercise 2: World’s Greatest Stretch
30 seconds per side STEP 1

MAIN AREA(S) STRETCHED:

HIPS, ANKLES, MID-BACK

STEP 1
Get into a plank position with your hands under your
shoulders and feet together. From here, lunge forward
by bringing your right foot up as high as you can, STEP 2
ideally next to where your right hand is. You should
feel a deep stretch in your groin muscles of your front
leg and the hip flexors of your back leg as you do this.

STEP 2
Take your right hand, place it on your knee and push
your knee out and back and then forward and back a
few times to loosen up the hips and ankles. STEP 3
STEP 3
To deepen the stretch even more, drop your right
elbow as far towards the ground as you can while
rotating your upper body down towards the ground.
As you do this, try to keep your right knee pushed out
rather than letting it collapse inwards.

STEP 4 STEP 4
To now open up the mid and upper back, rotate your
entire upper body up and to the right and reach your
right arm as far overhead as you can. If you can, try
to keep your back leg as straight as possible as you
do so. Then, reach back down and repeat this for
5 quality reps or about 30 seconds in total before
switching to the next side.
MODIFICATIONS
MODIFICATIONS
To make it easier, you can keep your leg bent or your
knee on the ground and work towards straightening it
more and more overtime.

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Exercise 3: Asian Squat
30 seconds hold, 30 seconds rock side to side STEP 1

MAIN AREA(S) STRETCHED:

HIPS, ANKLES

STEP 1
Get a rolled up towel and place your heels on it.

STEP 2 STEP 2
Using a squat stance which is typically just outside
shoulder width, squat down into however deep is
comfortable for you. Keep your chest up and try to
keep your heels down. If your heels do come up, you
can roll up the towel to make it even thicker, otherwise
that’s fine to keep your heels up if you have to.

STEP 3 STEP 3
Place your arms on the inside of your legs and use your
elbows to push your knees out. Sit in this position for
30 seconds.

STEP 4
For the next 30 seconds, move side to side to stretch
out each ankle one at a time. As you do this, avoid
collapsing your knees in and avoid pointing your feet STEP 4
too far outwards as this takes the stretch away from
the ankles. Instead, try to keep your feet angled out at
a max about 30-45 degrees out and keep each knee
inline with the outside of your toes.

MODIFICATIONS
Overtime try to get to the point where you no longer
need a towel under your heels. Also, to deepen the
stretch of the hips during the first 30 seconds, you MODIFICATIONS
can place your arms in a prayer position. Once that
gets easy, place your hands together into fists. Each
progression will open up your hips more and more by
spreading out the distance between your elbows.

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Exercise 4: Half Kneeling Thoracic Rotations
30 seconds
MAIN AREA(S) STRETCHED: STEP 1
MID & UPPER BACK, CHEST, SHOULDERS
STEP 1
Get into a half kneeling position with your right leg
bent as close to the wall as you can get it, and your
left leg planted forward in a lunge position. Place
both arms directly in front of you with your right arm
making contact with the wall.

STEP 2
STEP 2
Push your right hand into the wall as you rotate your
upper body to the left, trying to reach your left arm
to the other side of the wall. As you do this, avoid
rotating at your hips and try to rotate only the upper
body.

MODIFICATIONS 1
To make it easier when starting out, try moving your MODIFICATIONS 1
planted leg further away from the wall and just try to
rotate as far as you can without rotating your hips. As
this improves, try to move your leg closer to the wall
and rotate further.

MODIFICATIONS 2
To progress the exercise even further to really open
up the chest and shoulders by sliding
your hand against the wall as if you
were drawing a half moon.

MODIFICATIONS 2

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Exercise 5: Wall Slides
60 seconds

MAIN AREA(S) STRETCHED: STEP 1

LOWER AND MID TRAPS

Now that we’ve loosened up your upper back, we

will now temporarily have the mobility we need to be
able to better activate and strengthen some of the
smaller, weakened muscles in the back. Strengthening
these muscles will help you maintain these mobility
improvements long term.

STEP 2
STEP 1
Stand with your back against a wall and contract your
abs to flatten your lower back on the wall.

STEP 2
Slide your arms up and down the wall while keeping
your lower back flat and trying to keep your arms and
hands in contact with the wall. When done properly,
you should feel a few muscles in your mid back really
light up as you raise your arms up.
MODIFICATIONS
MODIFICATIONS
To make this easier when starting out, place your feet
further away from the wall. Then overtime, try to get
your feet closer and closer to the wall while trying
your best to keep your lower back flat against the
wall. If you can’t initially keep your arms in contact
with the wall all the way through, or you can’t slide
your arms up very high at all, that’s all perfectly fine.
Just focus on improving this overtime.

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