How To Stretch Shins For Cross Country Running Video

Learn how to run competitive cross country in this free video series on running and sports.

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Peter Elizondo was a cross country runner for 3 years at Nikki Rowe High School. He currently runs 3 times a week for over 6 miles at a time, and has competed in many marathons, such as the Rock & Roll Marathon in Carlsbad, CA.

Hi, my name is Peter with Expert Village. Today I'm going to talk to you about competitive cross country running. In this section I'm going to talk to you about stretching out your shins. So what you want to do is basically the whole idea and the concept is your foot you can either take it up to the curb and just place it the toe facing up towards you at a 45 degree angle. You want to get a stretch you'll feel it on the calve but you'll definitely feel it right here which is where the shins are. In fact you'll hear a lot of it from runners that get shin splints and a shin split is basically a break in the bone so this is a very important stretch that you want to do. So that way you don't have to get that injury and you don't have to sit out it takes from anywhere from 4-6 weeks to heal. So make sure you do this stretch to a full capacity anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute and then you'll switch off and do the other leg. Toes pointing up you'll feel it on the back of your calves but you'll definitely feel it up there and you can just take it out and also just rotate it. If you rotate that in both directions that will definitely work out the shins and you can do the same to the other foot as well.

How to Stretch Shins for Cross Country Running Video

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