When you wake up with the sun shining and birds chirping (and maybe the jackhammer on the construction project across the street revving aggressively), the last thing you want when you roll over is to feel like your muscles have fused together over night. Yet so many of us wake up with stiff muscles and sore joints. Fortunately, there are a lot of strategies to mitigate that Tin-Man-with-no-oil feeling. Lions, tigers, and bears may make you say, “Oh my!” but a stiff body shouldn’t fill you with dread.
In a new video for our Trainer of the Month Club, Winnie Yu, DPT, a New York–based physical therapist who focuses on the connection between mental health and fitness, demonstrates a 15-minute morning stretch routine that moves through gentle full-body dynamic stretches and a few core stability moves to start loosening up your muscles and joints and getting your blood flowing.
Read more here: https://www.wellandgood.com/15-minute-morning-stretch/
