Muscle tightness is never fun, but rock-hard hamstrings are real day ruiners. That’s because hamstrings, the group of muscles that run along the back of the thigh from hip to knee, are “vital ...

Lie flat on your back with your knees bent. Slowly lift one leg (with the knee bent) toward your chest. Be gentle with lifting the knee toward your chest, only going as high as feels comfortable. Hold ...

Lying on your back with one leg in the air, pull your leg towards the chest as far ... forward towards your knee until you feel the stretch. This will work the distal hamstring, near the pelvis.

This will activate the core, our shoulder and our chest muscles ... Put the hand back down, drop the back knee to the floor and lean back into a hamstring stretch for the front leg.

Objectives: To evaluate if a stretch regimen consisting of three 30 second stretches would alter joint position sense (JPS). Methods: A blinded, randomised, cross over design with a washout time of 24 ...

Next, pull one knee toward your chest. Hold for 30-60 seconds, then switch legs. Repeat. 2. Piriformis stretch 3. Hamstring stretch Why it works: The hamstrings — the muscle group in the back of ...

1 Chair of Sports Traumatology, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Catholic University of San Antonio (UCAM), Murcia, Spain Background The hamstring muscles are especially ...