Youth Basketball Stretching: Groin and Hamstrings

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Sean Hobson and what we're talking about right now is the importance of stretching your lower body. Now you want to stretch your lower body because of the fact that you're going to be moving quick, you're going to be cutting quick and you need to get good spring on your shots and rebounds. So you really want to be stretched good on the lower half. The first stretching we're going to talk about is a groin stretch. There are two different ways you can do it, as these guys will be showing you. The first way is, you're just going to kind of get together, put your feet together and you're going to use your elbows on the insides of your knees, and you're going to push out and that's going to give you a good stretch. There is another way you can do it, as these guys will show you, and these are called butterfly stretches. And what they're going to do is they're going to be sitting, put their feet together, and you're doing the same thing. You're taking your elbows, you're pushing your knees down, and get a good stretch. Again, you'll want to do a 12 count and you'll want to do two sets of these to stretch out the groin area. The last stretch that we're going to show you right here is the hamstring stretch. Very important muscle group for those that--every time you take a fast burst, you're going to pull that hamstring so it's got to be good and stretched out. So what we're going to do is we're going to team up as partners and one guy is going to lay down. This guy--we want to make sure that they get, that they push the foot back as far they can, until this guy tells them to stop so you get a good stretch. If you just barely push it, you're not really stretching out your partner. So this is good team work as well. You're going to stretch both legs. They'll switch it up, they'll jump around, and they're going to stretch the other leg just as much. Again, we usually do this for two counts, or two different sections of 12 counts each, and that's going to stretch your groin muscle and then you're going to stretch your hamstrings out and your lower body's going to be good and stretched out. "