Some tips for forming a stretching habit:

• Keep your Stretch Club card somewhere visible so it is an obvious reminder to do your stretching each day.

• Five minutes stretching a day is great to start your habit. If you do five minutes stretching a day, six days a week, and come to a 30-minute class, you will have done an hour of stretching that week. If you don’t already have a stretching habit, that’s an hour of stretching you’ve just added to your life for a five minute a day investment.

• If you can’t do five minutes, do two minutes. Or one minute. Just aim to get something on your card every day, and we can work from that benchmark.   

• It can help to choose a regular time each day to stretch. For example, I aim to do three minutes stretching in the kitchen first thing every morning while I’m waiting for the kettle to boil (because, coffee!).

  Check out the videos below for an overview of our two homework exercises ‘Cowboys and Ballerinas’. We do these every class as well.