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Doing Quad Stretches for Cross Country Running

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Summary: Learn about doing some quad stretches to loosen up your legs in this free training video on cross country running tips and techniques.

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Doing Quad Stretches for Cross Country Running

Hi my name is Peter with Expert Village and today I am going to talk to you about cross country running. In this section I am going to talk to you about stretching our your quads, which you just finished running on, which you just put a lot of weight on. Really want is important is where you are going to put your hand. So make sure your fingers are closed, that there is no space between them, and do not grab by the ankle. And do not grab by the end of the toe because you can easily just pull the muscles up here in the front. You want to grab right here in the middle of your foot with a nice, firm grab. And then your heel is touching your glutes, and as you can see, basically you just look like you are standing on one leg and this is just perpendicular perfectly. And you are just getting a full stretch on your hamstring. Now if you want a deeper stretch, for those of you that are a little bit more advanced, go ahead and just move your hand up toward your toes, and then just kind of pick it up a little bit, like about forty-five degrees, and you can feel that deep stretch in the front of your hamstrings. And you want that because you do not want to end up getting any type of tight muscles, or when you are running all of a sudden they cramp up really bad and then you tear something. That is how a lot of people tear their muscles. This is a really good stretch to prevent that, and then you can do the other leg as well.

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