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Loosen Full Body Muscle Workout

25 min
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18 exercises
This should stretch and strengthen the Abs, back and legs. Some focus is on the knee. Anything that gives pain to the knee please stop immediately.
Standing Hamstring Stretch
2 sets
30 secs
Walking High Kicks
1 sets
60 secs
Air Squats
1 sets
60 secs
Alternating Curtsy Lunges
1 sets
60 secs
High Knees
2 sets
60 secs
20 sec rest
Bodyweight Squats
1 sets
60 secs
Butt Kicks
1 sets
60 secs
Squat with side leg lift
1 sets
60 secs
Hip Raises
3 sets
10 reps
Lying Leg Raises
3 sets
10 reps
20 sec rest
Lying Side Leg Lifts
3 sets
10 reps
Supermans
2 sets
10 reps
20 sec rest
Adductor Knee Raises
3 sets
10 reps
Sphinx
10 breaths
Feet hip distance wide · Draw shoulders down · Press chest forward · Forearms parallel
Cobra Abdominal Stretch
1 sets
30 secs
IT Band Stretch Knee Hugs
2 sets
30 secs
Knee-to-Chest Lower Back Stretch
2 sets
30 secs
Leg Pull-In Knee-ups
3 sets
10 reps
15 sec rest
Loosen Full Body Muscle Workout
25 min
 · 
18 exercises
This should stretch and strengthen the Abs, back and legs. Some focus is on the knee. Anything that gives pain to the knee please stop immediately.
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Standing Hamstring Stretch
2 sets
30 secs
Set 1 of 2
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings
Secondary:
Calves
  1. Stand with feet closer than shoulder-width. Step forward with your left foot. Flex the left foot up towards you.
  2. Bend at the hips and place your hands on your thigh. Keep the left leg straight as you slightly bend the right knee.
  3. Feel the stretch along your left hamstring. Hold for the prescribed amount of time then switch sides.
Walking High Kicks
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Calves, Hamstrings, Lower Back
  1. Begin by standing tall with your feet placed shoulder-width apart.
  2. Maintain this posture as you raise your right knee as high as you can and step forward. Try not to round your lower back.
  3. Repeat with the left leg and continue to alternate legs as you walk.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Stand tall holding onto a pole or stationary object for support.
  2. Engage your abs as you swing your one leg as far out in front of you and then back behind you as you comfortably can.
  3. Switch sides once you have completed repetitions on the first leg.
Air Squats
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
  1. Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
  2. Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
  3. Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Alternating Curtsy Lunges
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Standing with a braced core and flat back, bring your hands together at chest height. Position your feet to be at hip-width.
  2. Beginning with the right foot, step backward and across your left foot. Simultaneously, bend the left knee and drop it towards the ground.
  3. Stop when the front right knee is parallel with the ground. Push off the ground with your right foot and return to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Stand straight – that’s the starting position. Step forward with your left leg and slowly lower your body until your front knee is bent at least 90 degrees, while your rear knee is just off the floor. Keep your torso upright the entire time. Look forward.
  2. Pause, then push off your left foot off the floor and return to the starting position as quickly as you can.
  3. On your next rep, step forward with your right leg. Continue to alternate back and forth—doing one rep with your left, then one rep with your right.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves
  1. Stand tall with a tight core and make sure your feet are shoulder-width apart. Bring your hands together for balance.
  2. Step directly to the left, leaving your right foot in place. Bend the left knee and pause once the upper left thigh is parallel to the ground. Your right leg should be completely straight.
  3. Contract the hamstring muscle then push off the ground to return to the starting position. Repeat on the right side. Alternate this movement.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
  1. Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
  2. Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
  3. Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
High Knees
2 sets
60 secs
20 sec rest
Set 1 of 2
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Begin jogging in place, lifting the knees as high as you can.
  2. Try to lift your knees up to hip level but keep the core tight to support your back.
  3. For a more advanced move, hold your hands straight at hip level and try to touch the knees to your hands as you lift them.
  4. Bring the knees towards your hands instead of reaching the hands to the knees!
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Standing tall with a tight core and flat back, you will begin the dynamic stretching exercise as if you were running in place. Keep the knees slightly bent at all times.Start slowly and work up to a faster speed.
  2. Bring your left foot back and all the way up to the glutes. Return your left foot to the ground and repeat on the other side.
  3. Continue this back and forth motion, keeping your arms swinging in motion.
Bodyweight Squats
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings
  1. Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
  2. Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head (prisoner squat) or at the sides of your head.
  3.  Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
  4. Keep your back straight at all times.
  5. Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Pause for a count of one. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
  6. Return to the start position by pushing down through your heels and extending your hips forward until you are standing straight. Repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Hamstrings
    1. Stand with your feet in a wide stance, with your toes slightly pointed outwards – like a sumo wrestler. Hold your hands together in front of your chest.
    2. Keeping your back straight, lower your body towards the ground by bending your knees.
    3. As you reach a fully squatting position (legs are bent at a 90-degree angle), hold the pose for 1 second before driving your feet into the floor and slowly push your body back up to the starting position.
    4. For a bonus, tense your glutes at the top of the movement.

 

 

 

Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Stand straight with your feet shoulder width apart and place your hands on your hips. This is the start position.
  2. Step forward with either leg in a long stride. Keep your other foot in place behind you.
  3. Bend your knees as you do this so your body is lowered towards the ground. Keep your back straight throughout the movement.
  4. Continue down until your front knee is just above the ground. (Your front leg should be bent 90 degrees at the knee)
  5. Hold for a count of one.
  6. Push down through your front heel and extend both knees to return to the start position.
  7. Pause then repeat with your other leg. When you have lunged with both legs, that is one repetition.
  8. Repeat.

Try to keep your hands on your hips at all times, using your obliques to keep your balance.

Butt Kicks
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Standing tall with a tight core and flat back, you will begin the dynamic stretching exercise as if you were running in place. Keep the knees slightly bent at all times.Start slowly and work up to a faster speed.
  2. Bring your left foot back and all the way up to the glutes. Return your left foot to the ground and repeat on the other side.
  3. Continue this back and forth motion, keeping your arms swinging in motion.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Begin jogging in place, lifting the knees as high as you can.
  2. Try to lift your knees up to hip level but keep the core tight to support your back.
  3. For a more advanced move, hold your hands straight at hip level and try to touch the knees to your hands as you lift them.
  4. Bring the knees towards your hands instead of reaching the hands to the knees!
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Squat with side leg lift
1 sets
60 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Ankles, Hamstrings, Knees, Lower Back
  1. Legs just wider than hip distance apart.
  2. Push back into a squat, Do not let knees go forward over toes.
  3. Keep chest up. Squeeze gluten on the way up. Then lift leg to the side.
Hip Raises
3 sets
10 reps
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings
Secondary:
Abs, Lower Back
  1. Lie on an exercise mat with your knees bent so that your feet are flat on the floor. Keep your back straight.
  2. Place your hands out to your sides palms flat for stability.
  3. Raise your glutes off the floor by extending your hips upward while pushing down through you heels.
  4. Continue until your back, hips and thighs are in a straight line. Hold for a count of one.
  5. Return to the start position by lowering your hips back to the floor.
  6. Pause then repeat.
Lying Leg Raises
3 sets
10 reps
20 sec rest
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie on your back on a mat with hands under your lower buttocks on either side to support your pelvis.
  2. Legs straight out in front of you, ankles together and feet slightly off the floor.
  3. Keep your knees straight and raise your legs by flexing the hips until they are completely flexed.
  4. Return to starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Lie on a mat with your hands under your buttocks and raise your legs slightly, keeping knees straight and ankles together.
  2. Keep abs engaged and perform short kicks in an alternating fashion.
  3. Repeat as needed and then lower legs to the ground.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie flat with hands under your buttocks.
  2. Keep your knees together and pull them in towards you while moving your torso towards them (lift your head, neck and shoulders up).
  3. Hold and then slowly return to starting position.
Lying Side Leg Lifts
3 sets
10 reps
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Lie on your right side on top of a yoga mat or other soft surface.
  2. Brace your core and make sure your body is in a straight line. Keep your right hand on the ground and your left hand on your hip.
  3. Slowly lift the left leg into the air, keeping it straight during the exercise.
  4. Slowly lower your left leg. Complete the set then repeat with the other leg.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Hamstrings
  1. Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
  2. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as if you’re sitting in a chair. Continue to lower your body until your upper legs are parallel to the floor.
  3. Then drive your hips forward and push through your quads and glutes  to return to a standing position.
  4. Just as you reach the standing position, lift your chosen leg out to the side; it should be straight.
  5. Lower your leg back so that you return to the starting position and repeat for the other side!
Supermans
2 sets
10 reps
20 sec rest
Set 1 of 2
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Lie face down on a mat, with your arms fully extended above your head and your legs fully extended behind you.
  2. Lift your chest, arms and legs off the floor by arching your back. Only the tops of your quads and your lower abdomen should be in contact with the floor.
  3. Hold for a count of 2 while squeezing your abdominals and obliques.
  4. Return to the starting position for a count of one, then repeat.

This exercise can be done using one arm and it's opposite leg at a time. For example, right arm and left leg raised while your left arm and right leg remain on the floor. This method of execution allows you to use the free hand to push down on the floor to lift your chest higher from the ground.

Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings
  1. Lie face down on a hyper extension bench with your upper thighs and lower hips on the support pad. You must be able to bend at the waist freely.
  2. Lock your ankles under the footpads.
  3. Start with your body in a straight line head to toe.
  4. Place your arms across your chest, behind or at the side of your head.
  5. Slowly bend forward by relacing your, back and abdominal muscles.
  6. Continue as far as possible without rounding your back or raising your thighs from the support pad. You should feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings.Hold for a count of one.
  7. Return to the start position by contracting your back and abdominal muscles until your body is once again straight. Do not arch your back up at the end of the movement. Pause and repeat.

As your strength and flexibility increase, you can hold a weight plate against your chest for extra resistance.

Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
  1. Lie prone on a swiss ball with your feet hip width apart. You can place your feet against a wall for better stability. Clasp your hands behind your head with elbows pointing out.
  2. Engage your abs and raise your torso off the ball, hyperextending your spine.
  3. Return your torso to the ball to the starting position.
Adductor Knee Raises
3 sets
10 reps
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Position yourself on all fours on a mat with your palms flat and shoulder-width apart. Place your knees hip-width apart and bend them at a 90 degree angle.
  2. Try to relax your core so that your back and abs are in a natural position.
  3. Maintain this posture as you raise your right knee and bring it as close to your chest as you can.
  4. Now raise your right thigh out to the side, keeping the hips still.
  5. Kick your raised leg straight back slowly until it is in line with your torso.
  6. Reverse the movement to return to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Lie on your right side on top of a yoga mat or other soft surface.
  2. Brace your core and make sure your body is in a straight line. Keep your right hand on the ground and your left hand on your hip.
  3. Slowly lift the left leg into the air, keeping it straight during the exercise.
  4. Slowly lower your left leg. Complete the set then repeat with the other leg.
Sphinx
10 breaths
Set 1 of 0
Rest before next set
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Feet hip distance wide · Draw shoulders down · Press chest forward · Forearms parallel
Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back, Middle Back / Lats, Shoulders, Spine
Secondary:
Abs, Chest
Pronunciation:
SHAHL-ahm-bah bhoo-jahng-AH-sah-nah
  1. Lie on your stomach. Bring your feet hip distance wide, toes untucked. Align your elbows under your shoulders, forearms parallel and fingers spread wide.
  2. Peel your head and chest from the floor with an inhale. Release your shoulders down your back and press your chest forward. Gaze forward.
  3. Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
  4. Lower with an exhale.

Avoid this pose if you have acute back injury.

Cobra Abdominal Stretch
1 sets
30 secs
Set 1 of 1
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie face down with your hands under your shoulders.
  2. Point your feet downwards to lengthen your spine.
  3. Slowly push your torso up as far as you comfortably can – try to get your hips to rise off the floor slightly.
  4. Hold the stretch and then lower down to starting position.

Avoid this stretch if you have back problems.

IT Band Stretch Knee Hugs
2 sets
30 secs
Set 1 of 2
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Put one foot over the other leg. Twist your upper body. Also hug your knee into your chest to feel the stretch in your glute.
Knee-to-Chest Lower Back Stretch
2 sets
30 secs
Set 1 of 2
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Lower Back
  1. Lie on your back on a mat with your legs extended in front of you and backs of heels on the floor.
  2. Grab hold of your right knee and gently pull it up to your chest until you can feel a slight stretch in your lower back.
  3. Try to bring the knee as close to your chest as is comfortable while keeping the left leg relaxed.
  4. Hold the stretch and then release the leg to starting position.
  5. Repeat with the left leg.
Leg Pull-In Knee-ups
3 sets
10 reps
15 sec rest
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Lie flat with hands under your buttocks.
  2. Keep your knees together and pull them in towards you while moving your torso towards them (lift your head, neck and shoulders up).
  3. Hold and then slowly return to starting position.
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