How To Stretch: Home Workouts for Legs and Thighs
Learn how to properly stretch your legs and thighs with these home workouts. Improve posture, sports performance, and reduce injuries with Dr. Greg Sher's tips.
Watch Dr. Greg Sher demonstrate how to do proper leg and thigh stretches. Follow along in your office or at home and stretch your muscles! These are the perfect home workouts for legs and thighs as no equipment is necessary.
What do these exercises achieve?
These can help improve your posture, sports performance and reduce injuries. They can also potentially help improve your strength – which can also help prevent pain or discomfort.
The Big Tip:
Stretch to tension and not to pain. Warm up before you train, and use stretching as part of your cooldown strategy, to possibly assist in reducing injury.
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Stretching is the key to loosening any tight muscles, and this is no different for tight thigh muscles. To stretch the muscles around the thigh properly you must:
1. Stand straight in an upright position
2. Spread your legs shoulder-width apart from each other
3. Slowly lean to the right while bending your right knee
4. Keep your left leg straight
5. Continue until a gentle stretch is felt in your inner left thigh
6. Hold for five seconds
7. Return to the start position
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Some stretches that we can recommend for stretching your thighs include: front thigh stretches, standing quadriceps stretch, kneeling quad stretch, back thigh stretches, standing hamstring stretch, partner hamstring stretch, dynamic thigh stretches – hamstrings, active straight leg raise, cycling upside down, and dynamic walks.
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To stretch your upper leg properly, the standing quadriceps stretch and kneeling quad stretch are some of the best stretches to loosen your upper leg muscles.
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The reason for tight thigh muscles may be attributed to overtraining and overuse of those muscle groups. That is why it is so important to stretch before doing any type of physically demanding activities.