15 Oct Start the Morning Stretch Challenge: No Equipment Week 1
The morning stretch challenge has officially begun! Every morning 6 days a week, beginner aerial dancers around the world are stretching to improve their flexibility.
Whether you’re new to the practice or are looking to jump back into daily stretching, join us on this flexibility journey to transform your aerial practice. We’re talking cleaner lines, learning more advanced tricks, and feeling more confident on the hammock. It all starts with a strong flexibility practice. NO equipment is needed in the first week.
All of the stretches in the challenge can be done at home. Next week, we’ll learn more about blocks and straps, but for now, let’s get started with the basics.
Feel free to change around the order of these stretches based on your availability and what you’re looking for that day. You’ll see some stretches are 10 minutes while others are 20 minutes. I hope this makes it easier to fit your stretches into your morning!
No Equipment Morning Stretches
Day 1: 10 MIN Morning Stretch for Beginner Flexibility (Standing)
For these 10 minutes, you’ll be standing the whole time, making this routine easy to do anywhere. Before we start stretching the body, we start this routine with relaxing the mind and focusing on extending every muscle.
Day 2: 20 MIN Morning Stretch for Beginner Full Body Flexibility
In this 20 minute full body stretching routine, we expand on what we learned the previous day, with new stretches and time on the floor.
Day 3: 10 MIN Morning Stretch for Leg Flexibility
In this 10 minute stretch, we focus solely on our leg flexibility, beginning with the basics.
Day 4: 20 MIN Morning Stretch for Flexibility – Jazzy Leg
In this leg stretch routine, we continue expanding on our leg flexibility but this time with jazzy music!
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Day 5: 10 MIN Morning Stretch for Beginner Shoulders Flexibility
After a long week of work, this video is great for giving your shoulders 10 minutes of self-care.
Day 6: 20 MIN Morning Stretch for Beginner Back Flexibility
In this last day of week 1, we continue with what we started and extend it to 20 minutes of shoulder and back stretches.
I hope you enjoy these 6 days of no equipment stretches! Once you finish the 6 days, you can move on to the next set of stretches: bands and blocks.
Stay tuned on the YouTube channel if you’re following along in real-time or check out the playlist here.
Next Week: Bands and Blocks
Read more about next weeks exercises in the second post of the Morning Stretch Challenge series.
Your aerial dance practice doesn’t stop at stretching though. Stretching after all is to help prepare you for a beautiful aerial practice that you can feel confident in.
