Stretching Exercises for the Groin Area While Standing

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Angela on behalf of expertvillage.com, and right now I’m going to describe a way of stretching your groin area. It’s very important that you do this especially before running, because when you’re hyper-extending your muscles, you’re very likely to pull this area, which makes it very difficult to walk. First step, you want to have your legs about double shoulder width apart. Then you want to put your hands on your waist, and you just want to slowly shift your body weight back and forth. You can hold this for about 10-15 seconds, then find your center of gravity and then shift to the other side. To keep your hands on your hips is to make sure that your back it straight at all times, that your not leaning over to the other side and putting pressure on it, which is not necessary. It’s very simple, just switching your body weight from side to side. If you want to make it a little bit more difficult, you’ve been stretching a lot lately, you can take your toes and tilt them outward, which will increase the pressure. "