How important is stretching?!?

If you’ve been following along these past couple of weeks, you know that today’s blog is the overview for the 4th day during the “Girl Talk” camp! This day was focused on the importance of stretching and exercising at home with simple, but effective exercises.

Just because you see people working out in the gym doesn’t always mean they know what they are doing? They might not know the importance of stretching or the correct way to do exercises. If you don’t stretch, then you can pull a muscle or a group of muscles, which can put you off your feet for one or more days. Stretching helps warm your muscles before you start lifting or engaging them in activities that would take more energy than everyday movements.

Once the importance of stretching was covered with the girls, we went over a few exercises you can do at home and emphasized which muscle groups they worked. Since, showing you these exercises is not really possible, here is a descriptive way to tell you what muscle groups they work. These are all simple exercises that help with toning up your body. Do each of these exercises 3 times each, with 12 reps each time.

Chair Dips – This works your triceps and shoulders.

Bicep Curls (with canned food or water bottles) – This will work your biceps and forearms.

Push-ups – This classic exercise works your chest, back, abs and triceps.

Lunges – These works your glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings and hip flexors.

Wall-sits – This exercise works your glutes, abs, quadriceps, and hamstrings.

Crunches – These work your abdominals.

Now that you know the importance of stretching and some exercises you can do at home you can now try them out. To add some cardio to your toning workout you can do jumping jacks, jump rope, and jogging in place for a minute each repeating them 3 times. These are all simple exercises that are very effective and can do wonders for you if you can’t make it to the gym.

For more information on stretching and exercising, contact TNT at 1-704-549-9550 or visit us at http://www.tntgetfit.com/!