How to Stretch Hamstrings for Cross Country Running

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Peter with Expert Village. Today I'm going to talk to you about competitive cross country running. In this section I'm going to show you how to stretch the back of your hamstrings. It's very simple you make sure your legs are not really close together and not very far apart just where you are comfortable, shoulder length apart maybe a little outside of that. The trick to this is you basically have your legs straight maybe a slight little bent not much just a hint and from your stomach up you just want your body to feel really relax like jell-o. You don't want any tension a lot of times people try to reach the ground you don't need anything like that. You're going to go towards the ground but your body is very very relaxed you just barely go forward from the stomach down. As you're relaxed you should feel that nice tight tension on the back of your hamstrings so remember from your stomach down to your hands you just want to feel very relaxed. If you want a little of a further of a stretch after your first thirty seconds for those who are a little bit more advance you can go ahead and just put your hands out a little bit more forward to the ground. Do that for another thirty seconds to a minute and that is it, that's a good stretch for your hamstrings."