Amy and Maya lead a six-minute standing break with wiggles, stretches, flamingo balance, bunny hops, and a one-minute freeze dance. Quick reset for students between classes or study sessions.
Questions this video answers
30 seconds.
Each reach/stretch segment is 30 seconds (two 30-second reaches and a 30-second forward stretch).
One minute (60 seconds).
Maya (Body Fit by Maya) and Amy (Body Fit by Amy).
Hi, I'm Maya from Body Fit by Maya.
And I'm Amy from Body Fit by Amy. And this is your brain break. Today we are going to do a short movement, a little workout for you to do after you've been sitting in school and you're tired and you need to get your energy up. So we're gonna have fun, right?
Yeah.
And you can copy what we do exactly. Are you ready?
Yeah.
Let's do it. Okay, everybody, the very first thing that we're gonna do is we're gonna shake our wiggles out for 30 seconds and go. So we're just gonna wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Get the Wiggles out. Maybe you need to shake your whole body. Maybe you just wanna shake the wiggles out of one arm and then the other arm. Yep. Or a little twist. Wiggle.
I think you got some water in your.
Yeah, you feel it? Shake out those legs. Shake your arms. Yep, we hear you. Okay. Okay. All right, so there we go. Now that we. We're shaking out our Wiggles, how about we do a stretch? You ready? Okay, so 30 seconds, we're gonna reach. We're gonna reach over. Oh, maybe you get a friend. Here we go. For 30 seconds.
Reach. And you can make a heart.
You can make a heart. That's right. Just stretch over. Maybe you're high fiving or a rainbow or a heart or you're just stretching. Or a high five. That's right. Oh, there we go. And then how about we keep reaching? And then. Yeah, how about we do that stretch right for our next 30 seconds? Here we go. 30 seconds. Let's stretch this way. Oh, air feels good, right? And that feels good on my back and my shoulders and my arms.
Thing. I don't know. You don't have to pick up your foot, right?
You can keep your feet down or you can pick them up. We always say you can work at your own pace. You can go fast, you can go slow. You do what is best for you. And how about one more stretch? Let's go down. Ready? So we got 30 seconds stretching down. And we'll tell you when the timer is up so you don't have to worry about that. We're gonna stretch. You don't have to actually touch your toes, but if you can, it'll feel good, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because we have a fan on in here. That's right. All right, now that we've been shaking our Wiggles out and we got a good stretch, what do you think, Maya? Should we do a flamingo?
Yeah.
Okay. So, Flamingo, we're just gonna pick our knees up just like this. You can walk around in whatever space you want. You have if you have more space. But if you're just at your desk, you can just pick them up right here. Right. But because we're doing this at home in our studio, we can walk like this. Right, Flamingo? Right. Or just on your floor? Yep. Oh, no. It says keep but good reading. Okay, now let's catch our breaths. And how about we do a little hopping? How about a bunny hop? You want to show us a bunny hop? Okay, so bunny hop is gonna look like this, but you can also just pick your knees up if you want. Okay, here we go. Hop, hop, hop. And you can do it at your desk, or if you have more space and you want to hop a little bit to the right or a little bit to the left. That was just our dog coming in. Right? Sometimes dogs like to interrupt your workouts.
Yes.
Right. Hop, hop.
You can hop in a circle.
You can hop in a circle. Yep. Or straight to your friends. Or back. How about one more thing? Do you think we should do a freeze dance? A dance party? Okay, guys, we'll go a little bit longer on this one. Here's what we're gonna do. Maya, you show us. We're gonna dance to the music.
And when we say, go, you go dance.
I'm gonna say freeze, you freeze. Okay. And sometimes we'll say go high, go low, Go to the side. But again, watch the people around you. Be aware of your surroundings.
And if you want to go to the side, you can do this.
Yep, exactly. All right, we're going to do one minute. Do we know how long that is? 60 seconds. Oh, we can do it. Okay, so have fun. You can dance however you want. We're going in 3, 2, 1. Dance. You can do whatever you want to do. Little dance, slow dance, fast dance. And freeze. Anybody moving? What do you think? We did it. And dance. Go. Have fun with it. Yeah. Freeze. And how about we dance really high? Reach up to the sky. Yeah.
And sky ride.
Oh. High. And sky. Reach up to the sky. Freeze. What's next? Should we dance really low? Get low.
If you want to dance to the sky, you could fly.
Yep. And get low. Down to the ground. Down to the ground. Can you get even lower?
And freeze.
And we did it. High five your neighbors. Give everybody a high five. High five. One more. Okay. Ready? And. Okay. Up.
Yay.
How do you feel? Do you feel that? Yeah. Now, why do we like to exercise? We like to move our bodies because we feel healthy and strong. And also we get so much energy. We get so much energy and we feel good. Right?
And if you feel. And if you see this on my.
Ear, Maya has some stick on earrings. Okay, come back here. Should we do one big deep breath in to finish it out? One big deep breath in and out. And we say, you did it. Great job, everybody.
