Youth Basketball Stretching: Quads and Calves

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson. We're continuing to stretch out our lower body right now. The muscle group we want to target right now is the quadricep muscles, here on the front. And the way we're going to do that is, we usually will partner up, and you're going to put your arm out on your partner to help you balance a little bit. You're going to take your foot and you're going to grab it by the toe and you're going to pull it up as far as you can, until again, you feel a good burn. If you just grab it and you don't feel a good burn, you're not going to get a proper stretch. They're going to hold it like this for a count of 12 again and then go ahead and switch it up. They're going to switch their arms, they're going to switch their legs, and again they're going to pull the toes up until they get a good burn going in the quadricep muscle. And this is a good stretch you'll want to do twice with each leg for a count of 12. The next stretch, or muscle group actually, that we're going to work on is the calf muscle. The way we're going to do the calf muscle stretch here is, we're going to have each guy get down in a push up position and the leg that you want to stretch--so if you want to stretch your right leg out, that's the one you put back with your toe. You're going to take your left leg then, and you're going to put it on the top of your heel. And what you're going to be trying to do, is you're going to try to take the heel of this foot and touch it to the ground and that's going to give a good stretch to your calf muscle. Again, you're going to do this with each leg, then you're going to flip flop it. Switch up feet. You're going to stretch the other one. Two different stretches for a count of 12 and then you'll be properly stretched, not only in your quadriceps, but in your calf as well. "