- Brooke Shields, 66, just shared a new stretching workout to Instagram.
- The workout focuses on stretching the glutes and lower back for those who are spending more time sitting around during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Shields has been sharing weekly at-home workouts to Instagram for free.
Brooke Shields is back with another free at-home workout. Although the model and actress usually goes on Instagram Live every Wednesday with trainer Ngo Okafor, she decided to switch things up with a Friday workout last week.
This time, Shields focused on stretching the glutes and lower back. "Should I be stretching every day?" she asked Okafor, who responded, "Yes. And don't think of it as an hour thing or a thirty-minute thing, just five minutes."
Whether you stretch in the morning or after work, Okafor said just 5-10 minutes is enough to loosen up your muscles every day. He also noted that people have been spending a lot more time sitting during the coronavirus pandemic. "Glutes get weak and tight, hamstrings get weak and tight, lower back gets tight, too," he said. "My lower back is tight," Shields added.
"So, we're going to work on loosening up the lower back," Okafor said, and the two got to work.
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For the first stretch, Okafor instructed the model to lay flat on her back and stretch out her arms over her head with her legs out straight. "Try to touch the back of your hands to the floor," he said, while reminding Shields to breathe into the stretch. "The breath is the key. Fill your lungs up with oxygen—inhale, exhale."
Next, Okafor said to pull the left knee into the chest while keeping the right leg straight on the mat. "As you do this, you'll want to relax your lower abs. If you're squeezing your abs, the lower back won't release," he said. After a couple of breaths, they slowly switched sides to target the right hip and groin. Then, they stretched both at the same time. Okafor told Shields to hug both of her knees into her chest. "Cross your arms over your legs if you can, and then squeeze. You want to think of it as closing the gap between your thighs and the upper body," he said.
For the next stretch, Okafor told Shields to bring her right leg across her body while lowering the left leg to the mat. "And then with the right hand, you're going to start to bring that left knee to the right side, but we want our left arm straight to the side, and left shoulder to the floor," he said. "The work here is not how far the knees can go. We want to release that lower back." Then, they switched sides.
To finish out the set, they hugged their knees to their chest one last time. The best part of this routine is that all you need is less than 10 minutes a day, and you're done! BRB, gotta go stretch.
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