8 Stretches You Should Do Everyday To Improve Flexibility

Physical therapist leads you through 8 of the best stretches that you can do at home to improve overall flexibility and mobility. Spine, upper body, and lower body stretches demonstrated to loosen up tight muscles and joints. Great post-workout cool-down routine or everyday stretching routine to stay loose and mobile!

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As a physical therapist, I work with a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

As a very general rule, most of the problems you have or will encounter in your body can be solved with one of two recommendations.

Stretch the areas where you are tight.

Strengthen the areas where you are weak.

In this video, I’m sharing 8 of the best stretches to help you to improve your overall flexibility and mobility.

In fact, to create this video I simply selected the 8 stretches that I give to patients the most often in my clinic and pressed “record”!

These are wonderful stretches that help to improve mobility in the spine, upper body, and lower body, and are incredibly effective at helping to reduce pain and increase function/activity.

HOW OFTEN SHOULD I STRETCH
You should come back and perform these exercises at least once every single day to achieve maximum benefit and effectiveness.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO SEE RESULTS
This is always a hard question to answer because it depends on so many factors. How long you’ve been tight, your age, your health, your activity level, etc all play a role in how quickly you will respond to the stretches demonstrated in this video.

For most people, you should start to see an improvement within about 4-6 weeks of consistently performing these exercises.

This routine should take approximately 10 minutes to get through from start to finish.

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8 STRETCHES YOU SHOULD DO EVERYDAY

1. LUMBAR SPINE ROTATION STRETCH (0:24)

2. PIRIFORMIS HIP STRETCH (1:03)

3. CAT / COW (1:51)

4. HIP FLEXOR STRETCH (3:12)

5. NECK AND UPPER BACK EXTENSION (4:23)

6. CHIN TUCKS (6:09)

7. DOORWAY CHEST/SHOULDERS STRETCH (7:16)

8. HAMSTRINGS (8:04)
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[toneandtighten]

Be sure to hit the "Thumbs Up" if you liked the video and comment your experience below. Thanks so much for watching!

[NovannaTyler]

Nice overview of flexibility exercises! Those wanting to delve deeper into this topic might find StretchMania beneficial

[HallaBolful]

0:28 Lumbar rotation stretch
1:04 Piriformis hip stretch
2:00 Cat/cow (or Cat/camel)
3:20 Hip flexor stretch
4:50 Thoracic/Cervical extension stretch
6:15 Chin tucks
7:24 Doorway stretch
8:08 Hamstring stretch

[floxendoodle]

Awesome video! At 57, I am learning that there is more to life than cardio and that I must intentionally stretch and strengthen EVERYTHING and IN EVERY DIRECTION in order to have fewer aches and pains.

[cameronramoly]

I love that you showed us the “moves” but I wish you could film one that was in real time, giving us a little more time to do each stretch together! Thank you for being an amazing teacher! Bravo

[iNFiNiTY]

I slept wrong, so my neck and shoulder are knotted and messed up. I also worked a 12 hour day and I am extremely tight and in pain. I did every stretch in the video and I feel exponentially better now, I will be doing these tomorrow, and hopefully every day as well thank you so much for making this! Subscribed, and will definitely will be checking out more of your content!

[akin_]

• 1:01 lumbar rotation stretch
HOLD 20secs 3x each side
• 1:47 piriformis hip stretch
HOLD 20secs 3x each side
• 3:09 cat/cow pose
HOLD 5-10secs repeat 30times
• 6:02 thoracic extension stretch
HOLD 5-10secs repeat 30times
• 8:10 HAMSTRING STRETCH
Hold 20srcs repeat 3x on each side

[Seamusmaill]

Very good video. Be very careful if recovering from an injury though. I was recovering well from a leg strain. I was doing glute exercise, on my back on the floor, pulled back my knee twords the opposite shoulder. No pain at all but I had strained something under my knee that left me in pain for two days

[brendanquinn]

This guy is a total legend, He will be canonised one day !

[mickwells]

Thanks Dr. Beckstrand ! I always appreciate your expertise and willingness to help your fellow man. May GOD bless you, your family, and practice.

[Valerieann]

I just found you and thank God! I appreciate your lessons that are helping me immensely, in the fight against the aging process!
Been doing yoga over 40 years, so I feel good after your guided sessions.
Thank you for popping up in my life you’re just what I needed!

[ladyempire]

This channel has opened my mind and body to a new way of getting fit and flexible. Absolutely love it!

[kpernulaify]

I just want to say a big THANK YOU! I was having neck pain most of my adult life (I’m 28 now) and I just thought it was normal. I came across your video of strengthening your neck, and upper back, and I now live pain free!

I cannot express how thankful I am! I am feeling great, and living my life to the fullest. I never knew how not normal my neck pain was until it disappeared. Thank you for your knowledge and sharing it with us. It literally changes lives.
Thank you! God bless you!

[blazed]

0:25 Lumbar Rotation Stretch
1:04 Deep Hip Rotator Stretch
2:03 Cat/Cow Stretch
3:24 Hip Flexor Stretch
4:58 Thoracic/Cervical Extension Stretch
6:23 Chin Tuck Stretch
7:43 Doorway Stretch
8:23 Hamstring Stretch

[katielindquist]

Been dealing with knee pain for a few months and finally addressed it at chiropractor. Got an adjustment on my hips and been going through your hip and knee stretching content and am seeing great results. Thank you for creating this content. It’s been a great help to addressing my knee discomfort and getting me back on the basketball court. Thanks 🙏

[JohnKooz]

With your clear anatomical knowledge and good and easy teaching skills, your videos make for great physiological guidance. Thanks, Jared!

[chrisp.]

Awesome, thank you for sharing. I miss having group training classes in high school and in the military that included stretching exercises. Thanks for sharing this here!

[angelam]

Thank you I have been dying lately of frozen shoulder in later stages. Your videos have been life saving. Short easy to follow movements that WORK thank you!

[zoehargreaves]

Quality content like this is what keeps me coming back!

[janetbellini]

Love these stretches! Thank you so much.