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True North Fitness Guide: Nighttime Stretches

This simple routine will help you unwind and prepare you for a great night's sleep.

After a long day of rushing to meetings, sitting at your desk, making and taking calls and solving everyone's problems, it can be difficult to unwind at the end of the day. It's likely that your brain is still racing and that your body is exhausted.

Now is the time to bring the two back together. Give your muscles the relaxation they so desperately need, and your mind the peace it requires for you to have a restful night’s sleep before the business begins again tomorrow with these evening stretches:

Sleeping Swan (or pigeon pose)

True North Fitness Guide: Evening Stretches

This simple routine will help you unwind and prepare you for a great night's sleep.

Be sure to check out our earlier posts for energy-boosting morning stretches and afternoon stretches as well. As a busy professional, you need to optimize your time. At the cost of a couple of minutes throughout your day, these simple stretches will give you a much-needed boost.

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