How to Do Youth Soccer Stretches

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Murray, and I'm going to demonstrate to you, some youth soccer stretches. It's important for kids to stretch properly before they play, and learn these fundamentals now, before they get older, because it will become more and more important to them as they grow up. In soccer, there's many different injuries that can occur. Probably the most common one, would be pulled muscles. There's many different muscles within the body that need to be stretched, before you start to play. For example, one simple youth stretch, would be a simple quad stretch, where you just pull up one leg, and hold it with one arm. Sometimes this is hard, because you don't have the best balance. A little trick I learned when I was a kid, was to hold my opposite ear, so if I was stretching my right quad, I would hold my left ear, in order for me to help keep my balance. Another simple youth stretch, would just be a regular hamstring stretch. You put your feet together,and stretch down and touch your toes. Another one would be just a simple calf stretch. A calf stretch can be done many different ways. You could start with one foot in front of the other, and you lean forward, onto that one foot in front. Each of these stretches should be held for about ten seconds, to get a full stretch, and that is just some simple youth soccer stretches."