To start off with your work-out:
- run a lap-- perhaps around the backyard or the house or up the hill (ugh, I know)
- jumping jacks
Anything to get you going and warmed up will make it harder for you to pull a muscle or ligament!
To get it going:
- 50 calf raises (WITHOUT touching the ground, that is)
- simple lunges
- stand or sit in a pike and touch your toes
- sit in a straddle (or as close to one as you can get) and try to get your nose to each of your knees
- sit in a pike, connect your hands behind your back and gradually slide back, stretching your shoulders (be careful!)
- go on all fours and kick your leg straight 20 times (repeat on the other leg, too)
- lie in a cobra position and lean your head back
- from that position, lower your hands a little bit and feel the stretch in your upper and middle back
- go into a bridge (if you can), straighten your legs and rock back and forth slowly
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These are some warm- ups. Be careful when you do them. If you feel any pain in your back, then lay in the child's yoga pose and relax.
Hope this helped so far!
~Anna
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