21 Oct Morning Stretch Week 2: Resistance Bands & Yoga Blocks
Now that you’ve warmed up with 6 days of no equipment stretches, we move into week 2 of our morning stretches! This second week is for more intermediate levels of flexibility and will require Pilates or resistance bands and 2 yoga blocks.
The Tumaz Blocks with a strap is currently my favorite set of resistance bands and yoga blocks, although any bands and blocks will do the trick.
We’ll start the week off working on our general flexibility before we move into more challenging stretches to do splits. Similar to last week, feel free to change around the order based on your schedule.
Here are our resistance band and yoga block stretches for the week.
Stretches with Resistance Bands & Yoga Blocks
Day 1: 10 MIN Full Body Morning Stretch with Yoga Blocks
In this 10 minute stretching routine, we’ll focus on full body flexibility, starting to incorporate yoga blocks into our practice. Although we’ll build up to more intermediate stretches throughout the week, this 10 minute routine is suitable for both experienced and beginner aerialists.
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Day 2: 20 MIN Full Body Morning Stretch with Yoga Blocks
Expanding on the previous day’s practice, we spend an additional 10 minutes on full body stretches with yoga blocks.
Day 3: 10 MIN Morning Stretch with Yoga Blocks for Splits
In these 10 minutes, we work on our splits with 2 yoga blocks, starting with waking up our body before we proceed with more intense stretching.
Day 4: 20 MIN Morning Stretch with Yoga blocks for Splits
In these 20 minutes, we continue with what we started on in our 10 minute stretches for splits. This routine is an intense one for leg flexibility, especially for working on splits.
Day 5: 10 MIN Morning Stretch with Pilate Bands for Shoulders Flexibility
It’s time to bring out your resistance bands for this 10 minute routine for shoulders.
Day 6: 20 MIN Morning Stretch with Band and Blocks for Back Flexibility
Before we end off the week, in this video we take 20 minutes to give our back a nice stretch using both our yoga blocks and resistance bands.
Coming Next: Hammock Stretches
And week 2 is complete! Now we can move on to stretching in the air. Stay tuned on YouTube and follow along with the playlist.
If you’re starting to practice aerial at home, you may be looking for some tips on setting up your hammock, warming up, hammock tricks, at-home workouts for aerialists, and more.
Recommended:
- Week One: No Equipment Stretches
- Week Two: Pilates Band and Yoga Blocks Stretches
- Week Three: Aerial Hammock Stretches
- Week Four: Mindfulness Stretches – with Yoga wheel