Lower Body Stretches: Toe Touches

Series Summary

Pulled hamstrings and injured groins are nasty injuries that can ruin your workout routine. These injuries are painful and can keep you away from the gym for weeks or sometimes months. Stretching is the best way to prevent injury when playing sports or working out. Proper stretching also increases blood flow throughout the body.

In this free instructional video series, let a former professional athlete show you how to properly stretch each part of your lower body. He shows you how to warm up your legs, calves, and glutes. If you want to tips on staying healthy and fit, let a former professional athlete show you how to warm up for your workout.

Video Transcript

"Okay, we've pretty much got his upper body warmed up, so we're going to go ahead and move on the the lower extremities. So what we're going to start off with is toe touches. Steve's going to put his feet together, keep his legs straight, and what his doing is, he's just going to reach down and touch his toes. Everybody's range of motion varies, so once again, you don't have to jump down and grab your toes and force any injury in the name of stretching. That's not what this is about. What he's doing is, he's stretching out his glutes and his hamstrings, and the back of his calves. It also hits some of the lower back as well, which is still a torso, but it connects very fluently to the lower body. So he really wants to make sure that, what he's doing is getting himself a proper stretch. And again, I go with the ten count. And our counts will vary, so for Steve right now, we'll go, one, two, three, one. One, two, three, two. One, two, three, three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, five. And you can go on up to ten. So it's a little bit longer than ten seconds but it's really an effective stretch, and it?s the corner stone of lower extremity stretching."