Stretching Exercises for Basketball Players

Stretching Exercises for Basketball Players
One thing you do before you start playing a game of basketball is calasended stretching the biggest thing that you do in basketball is use your legs so you want to stretch out your ham strings and your calf muscles so you don't hurt yourself and breaking ankles or twisting knees, or hurting your ACL basically. So one big stretch you want to do is stretch your ham strings by lifting one leg up and keeping your balance by keeping one arm forward. And you'll feel your leg tightened right here all across your ham string, you'll do that for about 2, 3 minutes depending on how sore you are or how much you want to stretch out before you play. And then you switch legs always make sure you alternate arms when you do it use the same arm for the same leg and you want to stretch out your arms the same way. Another thing is to stretch out your calf muscles you want to use you tipy toes to stretch out and raise your legs up, so you want to stand on the balls of your feet which will stretch out your calf muscles out and put your butt back and your going to bend over. It's going to stretch all this out see how my muscles are ready tightened by being on my legs your going to stretch it all out your going to bend over and try to touch your toes while you have your toes on your balls while your touching your toes, while your standing on your tipy toes. So you'll do that for a good cause your calf's are the hardest thing to stretch and they get sore the fastest and they tightened up the fastest as well cause your running on them. So you want to that probably for a longest of periods of time and you try to touch your toes and try to go as far as you can without straining yourself or hurting a muscle while your stretching cause sometimes it hurts to stretch muscles but it's also good for you. You can also do stretch your arms out cause there's a lot of stingulous activities going towards basketball when you dribble the ball, your hitting other opponents, you stretch out your arms, every piece of your body gets very physical, stretch your arms out really well. It's very important to do all this I usually do palites but for those who don't palites is very easy to do this at home and sit down before you play. Both ways just twist everything make sure everything is loose jump around a bit stretch behind you, stretch your arms behind you this will loosen up your back muscles ya really loosen your back muscles and stretch all the way up it loosens up your lower back and if you arch your back a bit while you stretch up in the air and you have your toes raised while your doing it you can stretch the whole vertebra of your back and thats basic stretching for basketball.