Stretching videos

A poor person like me can’t afford a gym membership. Nor can I afford a trainer, who is normally provided with a gym mebership. And without a trainer there is no one around to help me with the new exercise routines and to show how it’s done, right? Actually, wrong. Internet is a great gadget. If I have a question about anything I go to my MSN list and talk to my friends about any doubts and problems I may have. Or I lookup information on other blogs, google or forums.

But what about routines that are not easily explained in words, like stretching? A big advantage of a trainer is that he can actually SHOW you how to do something. An article can only show a few pictures that are often very confusing and depressing…

But keep your head up, o bodytweaker! The great information age has arrived! Now you don’t even have to have a trainer to see how something is done right. Just look it up in video directories! God bless internet!

Jokes beside, here is a list of great video sources and some samples where you can get cool new workout ideas from:

Google Videos – a great source of videos. Doesn’t have a lot, but quite enough.

1. Golf stretching video 1 and video 2
2. A woman stretching in sitting yoga position
3. Another woman performing leg stretching on a railing
4. Lower body stretch
5. 3 women performing stretching on the beach. Hot!
6. 30 min. Video of a marathon preparation class: stretching.
7. A 4 min stretching video with expalnations. 5 star!
8. A woman performing deadsplit
9. Cycling stretching exercisses. Very useful!
10. 5 stretches routine. Rather exotic (tai-chi like) stretches. Cool!
11. Abdominal stretching to tighten up stomach

1. Beginner gymnastics stretching.
2. Angela Joyce performing back stretching. Check out her other 15+ stretching videos on the same site. On your place, I would bookmark that page. Very useful!
3. …Heck, here is a whole list of hundreds more videos: http://www.expertvillage.com/category/health-fitness.htm

1. Stretching video 1.
2. Stick stretching.
3. …wow! this flexibility inspires a lot! also check out her other videos like this one of the splits.
4. Towel stretching, a good idea.
5. …etc.

There are a lot of more videos, but I think these few are a good start and give a good idea of how a stretching routine should look like.

There are also ton of material about yoga, strength training, endurance training, etc. Just look at those websites and use their search functionalities.