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Flexibility Challenge Week 1: Static Stretching
Welcome to the first week of our 30-Day Flexibility Challenge!
Each week throughout this challenge we’ll be focusing on making our bodies more mobile and flexible so that we can move better and stay pain-free. It’s important to maintain good flexibility and mobility to keep getting stronger and healthier!
We’ll have a different focus each week of the challenge. During the first week, we’ll be doing static stretches.
12 Minute Athlete 30-Day Flexibility Challenge
It’s time to get flexible!
When we recently asked you in our Facebook group what challenge you’d like to see next, you guys put flexibility and mobility highest on the list. And we listened!
We all do tough workouts—but if you skip stretching and mobility you may really slow down your progress—or even worse, get injured.
Here are a few examples of what may happen if you don’t consistently work on keeping your body mobile and flexible:
- You don’t stretch your muscles after a workout so you get really sore. As a result, you may need to skip your next workout
- You’re feeling super tight and sore, but decide to work out anyway. But because of the tightness, it’s hard to maintain proper technique and you may end up injured
- If you’re like most people, you sit during much of the day and probably notice how your neck, back, hip and glute muscles get extra tight, which eventually may start to limit your range of motion and/or cause pain
- The tighter you feel, the less likely it is that you’ll exercise!
