3 One-Minute Stretches to Shape Your Waist and Burn More Fat

After spending a hot summer day in scorching heat and jam packed trains, people in Japan are said to always find time to stretch. It is also a Japanese custom and past time enjoyed by man to participate in morning stretching aired everyday over wire by national broadcast radio.

Stretching helps get your ready to workout and puts a golden halo over exercise warding off potential harm that physical activity can't be without. More so did you know that stretching can help you burn off fat faster?

Even if you are someone who rarely goes to the gym, just by stretching you can restore your vitality and start looking and feeling younger. Although stretching doesn't burn as much calories as jogging and walking, it is much easy to get started and requires less commitment on your part.

There are a lot of people out there that think it's impossible to build a great waist without working your butt off. It doesn't have to be that hard. Here's how you can do just that using only 1 minute of your day.

Stretch out your waist like a seal

This stretch may be familiar to what you've done in gym class. Only this time, we are going to go into necessary detail so that you can do it safely. Surely your gym teacher will be proud.

How to stretch your hips doing the seal stretch

1. Lay face down
2. Raise upper body slowly using your arms
3. Stop somewhere comfortable and hold that position for 5 seconds
4. Twist body to the right and hold for 5 seconds
5. Twist again to the left holding for another 5 seconds
6. Slower return your body to its original position

Avoid over stretching your hips. For people with lower-back pain, over stretching can lead to increased pain in your back. If during the stretch you feel like you are hyperextending your elbow, then it is recommended that you bend at the elbows while doing the stretch.

Stretch out your waist like a track star

You may not be a track start, but at least you can stretch like one. Whether you are lying in the grass waiting your turn to show that you are the fastest, or you are just lying in bed waiting for you favorite show to start, this next stretch is for you.

The track star way to stretch your hips

1. Lay on a flat surface facing up
2. Bending your right knee at a 90 degree angle, cross you hip forming a 90 degree angle between your right leg and the floor. Isolate you torso, gluing your shoulders to the floor.
3. Hold for 5 seconds
4. Recover and relax
5. Do the same stretch on your left leg

Avoid having your shoulder raise above the ground at all cost. Doing this drastically impairs the effectiveness of this stretch. Not only to you stretch your hip, you get stretch in the back of your thighs, back, muscles in your chest. Remember that if done right, there is no reason that this stretch wouldn't work.

Feels like morning hip stretch you can do in a chair

Tarou: Hey Susan, you look like you are ready to take on the world?

Susan: Oh you know. A woman's got to stretch before she starts kicking butt.

Hip stretch you can do at your desk to impress co-workers

1. Sit up straight in a chair
2. Raise your hands in the air as if to stretch your stomach out and hold for 5 seconds
3. Relax and enjoy before the next portion of the stretch
4. Raise your hands again, this time bending at the waist, collapse your body to the right
5. Continue bending at your waist until reaching a comfortable position and hold for 5 seconds
6. Return back to the middle position and perform the same stretch on your left side, holding for 5 seconds

If done right you will feel a stretch from your hips to your back. Avoid bending your back too much as to avoid injuring your waist. When lowering your body to your sides, it is best to use a mirror to make sure you are keeping your back straight.

Stretch you torso at your desk

After a long day of work (sitting amongst other things), no wonder why you have stiff shoulders! Take a minute to look behind you and stretch out your torso.

How to stretch out using your desk chair

1. Sitting down in a chair, cross your right leg over your left
2. Grabbing the back of your chair, twist to your body to the right
3. Hold each position for 5 seconds, slowly returning to your original position
4. Repeat, doing the same for you left leg

To perform this stretch on chairs without a back, a stool for example, latch on to the surface you are sitting on. Pay attention to your posture when doing this stretch for best results.

Burn off fat faster saying no to cellulite and feeling younger than ever

Stretching allows you to work out the kinks left behind after exercise, improve blood circulation, and speed up fatigue recovery. That is why it is recommended that you stretch before and after exercise.

What are some of the benefits that I get out of stretching?

However, that's not all. By improving circulation in your body, your body warms up making it easy to burn fat more efficiently, not to mention fight off the swelling cause by edema thought to be connected to cellulite.

As you grow limber, your muscles gain more elasticity, lessening the chance that you will injure yourself during exercise. For people who are looking for ways to feel young, stretching is a must.

Stretching shouldn't hurt but leave you feeling refreshed after you're done

Some people like to stretch hard to get better results. However, it's important that when you stretch don't overdo it. Stretching should be like breathing, cold air in hot air out. That felt good.

Is stretching hard going to boost my exercise performance?

Stop torturing yourself. Stretch until you feel your muscles grow limber and you have nothing to worry about.

In particular, stretching is good for people with lower back pain. Although just because stretching can help get rid of horrible pain in your back, that doesn't mean it doesn't turn into a double edged sword if you push it too far.

If in the middle of a stretch you feel that you're about to pull your back, stop and take a few steps back. We wouldn't want you to strain your back doing an innocent stretch would we?

Do my muscles automatically get tight if left alone?

It seems that letting your muscles grow stagnant results in the tightening up of your body. Stiff muscles negatively affect your circulation disturbing the flow of nutrients and oxygen throughout your body. Waist products and fatigue begin to build up in your body because of this.

If I don't exercise does that mean I don't have to stretch?

Stretching before a workout increases the rate at which you burn fat. Even stretching on days when you are taking a break prevents harmful drops in your metabolism making it harder to put on extra pounds due to fat.

Bending and twisting are two movements that people don't get enough of in their daily lives. This is where love handles enter the picture. Stretching not only can help you loosen up limbs, but also is just what you need to start shaping your body.