Pilates Runner's Stretch

Video Transcript

"Welcome back, our next stretch is the runner's stretch. You're going to start at the front of your mat. You're going to have your right foot in front and you're going to send your left foot all the way back so you want to keep your knee in line with your toe here. Your hands can go onto your thigh; you're going to press your hips down all the way, as far as you can. If you need to take your hands on the sides of your foot you can as well for an added stretch, so place your hands on the side of your foot; keeping your knee in line. So on your hamstring stretch you want to make sure you do not look like this; you want to keep your knee in line with your ankle here so it's not over your toe as you stretch down. Good, one deeper inhale here and exhale. From here lower that left knee all the way down, so keeping your hips forward here. You're going to drop your hips even more forward, take a deep inhale and exhale, keeping that knee in line with that ankle. One deeper inhale and exhale then you're going to sit back onto that heel so bring your booties all the way back. Straighten that right leg all the way and stretch out that hamstring. That was part of the runner's stretch and we're going to switch to the other side so come all the way up and switch legs. You're going to bring your left leg in front and bring your right leg all the way back. Good, start all the way sitting tall so as you see, you want to keep that knee in line with that ankle and your hips are all the way down here. From here take a deep inhale, press your arms flat, and so bring your arms all the way down towards by the side of your foot. Keep that right leg straight and long and then exhale, lower that right knee all the way down. Good, so you want to keep those hips completely forward here. Take a deep inhale and exhale; try to push the hips forward even more. One more deep inhale and exhale, try to sit back on the back of that heel, keep the foot flexed and stretch that hamstring, good. That was our runner's stretch and from the runner's stretch, we're going to work on our standing hamstring stretch."