Video: Off-Season Football Training: Quad Stretch

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Quad stretches help to balance the body after a football off-season workout which is important for muscle development and motor mechanics. Learn quad stretch exercises from a professional fitness trainer in this free sports fitness video.

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Off season training for football. Cool down, the quad stretch. Since we are just stretching the gluts and the hamstrings and the hips, we now want to work on also stretching the quadriceps so that there is a balance in your body which is really important for muscle development and also motor mechanics. So we're going to come down. We're going to lay on your stomach, and, real simple, we're just going to take the hand to the same side foot and just hold onto the ankle. We're going to twist the shoulder down, keep the hips flat down, and then just try to lift your knee off the ground. And then once you're able to do that, then we can change the grip of the hand on your foot and lift a little bit more. Each time try to keep the hip flat on the ground while the knee is moving away from the ground. Then a little more advanced would be to use opposite hand to help lift the knee up off the ground. Again, while you're in the stretch, really just focus on taking deep breaths in, exhaling out. Allow the stretch to deepen with each breath but don?t force the stretch to deepen. Meaning you don't want to pull on the stretch. You want to go to what your body is allowing you to do, relax, breath in. If then on the next exhale, your body will deepen into the stretch, by all means take the stretch a little deeper.

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Off-Season Football Training: Quad Stretch

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