A short guided upper-body dynamic stretching routine led by Autumn Calabrese (Autumn Fitness). The instructor guides viewers through a sequence of mobility and flexibility moves — interlaced-finger chest openers, side bends, cat-and-cow, thread-the-needle in child's pose, cobra back-extension, shoulder and triceps stretches, and forearm stretches — with breathing cues and brief encouragement. The tone is instructional and encouraging.
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Hey, welcome to Autumn Fitness. Thanks for joining me today. I've got a little upper body stretch for you. Let's get started. Give me a big inhale up. We're going to interlace those fingers above the head. Press up.
Pulling back behind you just a little bit. Now drop it forward, running around your spine. Feel the stretch between your shoulder blades. Again, lift it up, taking it slightly behind you, opening up the chest. And round it forward.
And lift it up and angel it down. Squeeze those shoulder blades down your back. One more time, inhale up and angel it down. Squeeze them down your back and then interlace those fingers. Pull down, open up your chest. Lift the chin.
Hold it right here. And we're gonna release it all the way forward.
And bring it up. Nice. Take it over to the side. Press your glutes down into the ground. Feel that stretch on your side and wrap it around all the way to the other side. Right here.
Big stretch. Bring it back to the cent.
And lift it all the way up. We're gonna come onto the hands and knees. Hands are under your shoulders. We're just gonna do a cat and cow. So round your back here. Drop your chin and arch your back. Look up. Let's do it again. And round.
And arch and look up. One more time. Round.
And arch and look up. We're gonna bring it back to a neut. Press back into child's pose, pressing those sit bones down into your heels, reaching those fingertips out in front of you. From here, interlace your arm underneath, twisting, stretching the shoulder.
And bring it around other side.
And then from here, bring it back to the center. We're gonna press forward, down into a cobra. Lift it up, stretching out the tummy, pressing the should down away from your ears.
And release. One more time, press back. Child's pose and bring it up to kneeling. Take one arm in front of your chest here, stretching out the shoulders, and we're going to release it. Go up. Triceps.
Other arm. Take it in front of you.
And lift it up. Triceps, stretch right here. Good. From here, we're gonna release that. You're gonna take the palms to the ground, fingertips facing you, pressing away from your body. So you feel that stretch in the forearms round your back, feel it even more and then flatten out. Come forward and press back around.
And flatten out forward. Nicely done, you guys. Thanks for joining me. Be sure to comment below. I'll respond. I'll see you next time.
