How To Do Hamstring Stretches Video

Hamstrings are very easy to injure in athletics. Learn how to stretch the hamstring properly from a professional trainer in this workout video.

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Sit on floor
Cross legs
Reach up & out
Walk fingers out

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Michael Rosengart is a professional fitness trainer in Santa Monica, California.

Off-season training for football: Cool-down hamstring stretches. Now there are lot of hamstring stretches that you can do and a lot of them you can do standing. I'd like to focus on doing a couple of hamstring stretches on the ground especially after the workout that we just established today. We really want to take this time to allow your body to relax as much as it possibly can. So we're going to start by sitting on the ground. We're going to bring both feet out in front of us and we're going to put one leg on top of the other leg so right foot on top of the left. So you're going to reach up as high as you can then exhale, come on down. Now sometimes even a simple forward bend like that is kind of hard so if that's the case, don't worry about reaching over your head but just have your hands on the ground and we're just going to go walk the fingers out as far as you can. And once you're out here, as far as you can, just focus on taking a very deep breath in and then exhale and allow your body just to fall down. Again, take a deep breath in and exhale. So then we'll switch sides, or I should say switch legs so left foot on top, same thing. Just walk your fingers out, take a deep breath in, exhale and relax. The next one, we're going to take the feet nice and wide. We're going to stay square with the torso here in terms of we're not going to bend the torso, we're going to twist the torso, and then take both hands and both shoulders down evenly towards one foot. Once you're in position at your farthest reach, take a deep breath in then exhale down. Again, breathe in and exhale then walk your hands back, twist over to the other side, take a deep breath in, exhale, reach out, take a deep breath in, exhale out. One more time, take a deep breath in, exhale out, then come up again, this time take both hands out the center, let your head just drop to the floor, take a deep breath in, exhale out, deep breath in, exhale out and one more time. Good. Then bring yourself back up.

How to Do Hamstring Stretches Video

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