Arms Free

Arms Free

For athletes dealing with arm, wrist, or shoulder injuries. None of these videos require the use of your hands or arms.

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  • Extended Exhalation Breath

    Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
    Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect on your nervous system, helping you to slow your heart rate and relax. Use this routine to Work IN.
    Includes a pre/post practice check in — a pause to no...

  • Make Balance Your Baseline Meditation

    Beneath stress, illness, and injury, you possess an innate knowledge — a baseline — of where you're meant to be and that is a state of balance. Use this simple meditation to establish and maintain that baseline so that you can more easefully manage whatever comes at you.
    - Focus: mental focus, ba...

  • Recovery Meditation

    Use this routine to set the tone for optimal recovery.
    - Focus: mental focus, recovery
    - When: post-workout or recovery day
    - Suggested prop: bolster or pillow

  • Establish a Balanced Foundation

    Use this routine to become more aware of how you're standing and intentionally correct your stance back toward center from the ground up. When you establish a balanced foundation, your body can more readily find optimal alignment, which will help you improve your posture and biomechanics for any ...

  • Relax Deeply

    Use props to support your body so that your tired muscles don't have to. This deeply relaxing Reset will ease overworked muscles and decrease any lingering tension in your system to optimize healing and recovery.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: back, chest, shoulders, neck
    - When: post-workout o...

  • Couch Reset

    That's right, you can Hit Reset from the comfort of your couch. Use this routine to ease to trouble spots from head to toe, including hamstrings, hips, back, chest, shoulders, and neck.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips, back, chest, shoulders, neck
    - When: post-workout or recover...

  • Optimal Hip Reset

    Get the most out of your post-workout hip stretches by inverting your legs (putting them upside down) to help recirculate and drain any excess fluid while easing hip stiffness and restoring optimal range of motion.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: hips, back
    - When: post-workout or recovery day
    ...

  • How To Kickstart Recovery

    Get the most out of your training by intentionally transitioning from work to rest. Use this post-workout Reset to re-establish space in your body and restore fluidity, helping to kickstart recovery so that your hard work can be optimized.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips, chest,...

  • Comprehensive Hip + Hamstring Reset

    Use this comprehensive recovery routine for your hips and hamstrings to re-lengthen stiff hamstrings and restore hip range of motion. Enjoy the added bonus of easing low back pain and discomfort along the way. Includes Legs up the Wall and plenty of time for what's needed most post-workout: rest....

  • Hammy Time

    It's hammy time! For those times when you're out of gas and don't have much energy or time to stretch, use the wall to align and support your body while quickly re-lengthening stiff muscles. Includes a comprehensive hamstring Reset plus a hip opener. Shout out to Oiselle CEO Sally Bergesen for na...

  • Sunday Reset

    Use this full body Reset on Sunday nights to set the tone for next week's workouts. Ease lingering tension, restore fluidity and range of motion to key running muscles, and make space for the miles ahead.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: hamstrings, hips, glutes
    - When: post-run/workout or recove...

  • Recovery Boost for Runners

    Sometimes, rest is best. Use this full body Reset to address common running imbalances from head to toe and kickstart your recovery.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscles: feet, hamstrings, hips
    - When: post-workout or recovery day
    - Suggested props: bolster or pillow, strap

  • Comprehensive Reset for Triathletes

    Use this full body Reset to ease lingering stiffness and tension and restore range of motion to all your key swim, cycle, and run muscles in less than 25 minutes. Use it to relax deeply absorb the benefits of all your hard work, and make space for the training ahead.
    - Focus: recovery
    - Key muscl...

  • 5-Minute Back Reset

    Post-workout or prolonged sitting, your spine craves a return to neutral. This quick Reset will move your spine through its complete range of motion to improve circulation, ease stiffness, and re-establish optimal alignment and posture.
    - Focus: injury prevention, recovery
    - Key muscles: back
    - W...

  • Recovery Boost

    Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
    Relax deeply using static (still) postures, making use of the wall as a prop, to open the body and encourage deep physical and mental relaxation. Use this routine to Work IN.
    Includes a pre/post practice che...

  • 5-Minute Chest Reset

    Stiff pecs flop your posture forward and make you susceptible to shoulder injuries. This quick Reset will re-establish the space across your chest to improve your posture, optimize your breathing, and boost your energy.
    - Focus: injury prevention, recovery
    - Key muscles: chest, shoulders
    - When: ...

  • How To Improve Sleep Meditation

    If you're not sleeping well, you're not recovering as well as you could be. Use this short meditation to help you create space between the activities of your day and your rest, helping you ease into a better night's sleep.
    - Focus: mental focus, recovery
    - When: before bed
    - Suggested prop: wall

  • Workout Day Warm Up

    Use this dynamic warm up to encourage turnover while connecting your mind, body, and breath. Incorporates low reps to hit all your key running muscles quickly including activation for your glutes, back, and core to help you get the most out of the miles ahead.
    - Focus: warm up, performance
    - Key ...

  • Starting Line Warm Up

    Use this quick pre-race warm up to activate your breath, key muscles, and race mantra as you toe the line — no props required!
    - Focus: warm up, performance
    - Key muscles: glutes, hips, back
    - When: pre-workout/race

  • Standing Balance Flow

    Challenge your standing balance while activating and strengthening your core and the muscles that stabilize your ankles, knees, and hips — adding more stability and power to all your movement.
    - Focus: balance
    - Key muscles: quads, hips, core
    - When: pre-workout or cross-training