Best Leg Day Stretches
Plant your foot flat on the ground with your toes pointed forward.
Best leg day stretches. Bent-Leg Pull Muscles targeted. Try to straighten your legs completely and lower your heels to the floor. Having adequate motion in your low back hips knees and ankles is an important factor in preventing injury or reinjury around these joints.
Keep the elevated leg straight and lean into the knee bending at the waist. This warmup will target each group to help increase blood flow range of motion and stability throughout your hips and legs. The leg cross-over is great for stretching out the hip flexors and glutes.
Straight-Leg Pull Muscles targeted. With over five years of international teaching experience Vanessa likes to focus on feel good fitness and flexibility. Do this with a straight leg and then bend the leg you are stretching and sit down on it to stretch the lower part of the calve.
Extend your right arm overhead rest your left arm on your left leg and gently bend your torso and right arm to the left side. Hold then repeat on other side. Rock your butt back toward the other foot and reach your arms forward.
Put the leg down to catch yourself and step up with the other foot raising the knee to grab it. Keep your right knee over your ankle or slightly behind avoid hyperextension. Low Lunge is a crucial stretching exercise for sore legs as it stretches your iliopsoas rectus femoris muscle and sartorius muscle.
Reverse the order and do the same for your other quad. Muscles in your legs can get tight after exercising or playing sports. Hold the side of the pool for support if needed.
