Jet-Set Fitness: How to Work Out with Little Space

This lesson is part of the series: At Home Workouts - Upper Body, At Home Workouts - Full Body

Traveling during the holidays can be very stressful on the mind and especially wearisome the body. When you are flying, driving, or in any situation in which your body sits for long periods of time, your muscles begin to tighten up and create soreness that make you feel more tired after your trip. To avoid these cramps Derek suggests finding ways to stretch out in little to no space. In this video, he presents his top chair stretching exercises. The stretches help lengthen the neck, hamstrings, back, mid-back, shoulders, and arms.

After watching this video you will know how long to hold each stretch, where you can do the stretch, and what areas of the body are best to stretch in order to increase the blood flow through out your body. Watch this video and keep your body nice and loose on the fly!

You can do this video in the comfort of your own home, on the plane, in the car (not driving), or on a train. No experience required and equipment-free.

Derek Duke Noble (www.bodynoble.com), the host and creator of Urban Fitness TV (www.urbanfitnesstv.com), is a world-renowned celebrity lifestyle and fitness guru. "

As a personal lifestyle fitness guru and trainer, I have had the good fortune to work with some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities (John McEnroe, Demi Moore, Maria Shriver, Tatum O’Neil, and Michael J. Fox) and most recently, I got the opportunity to serve as both host and executive producer of Urban Fitness TV on the Fit TV channel. After working with an extensive list of high performance athletes, high fashion models and actors who have little time to work out, but still have to look as if they live at the gym, I created the ‘focus touch’ visualization technique that can boost the effectiveness of any exercise. This technique is part of the Body Noble Method, which is a safe,...

Awesome stretch tips for when you're flying!

01/19/2009

~ nachan

Derek's lesson on stretching in the airplane is great! I travel abroad every year and after a 12 hour flight I really need to move around and get the blood flowing in my body again. I love all the arm stretches but my favorite are the stretches for the neck. My neck cramps up after sleeping in an air plane seat for hours. Great lesson!

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