This 5-minute standing lower-body session will stretch your back, hamstrings, glutes, and calves with 3 easy stretches.
Standing Hamstring Stretch
- Stand tall with your feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent, arms by your sides.
- Exhale as you bend forward at the hips, lowering your head toward floor, while keeping your head, neck and shoulders relaxed.
- Wrap your arms around backs of your legs and hold anywhere from 45 seconds to two minutes.
- Bend your knees and roll up when you’re done.
Standing Quad Stretch
- Stand with your feet together.
- Bend your left knee and use your left hand to pull your left foot toward your butt. Keep your knees together.
- If you need to, put one hand on a wall for balance.
- Squeeze your glutes to increase the stretch in the front of your legs.
- Hold for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
- Repeat on the other leg.
Standing Glute Stretch
- Stand tall with your core engaged. Pick up right foot and cross right shin over left thigh.
- At the same time, hinge at hips, and bend left knee, coming into a half-squat with legs in a figure-four position.
- Hold for 30 seconds.
- Repeat on the other leg.
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Originally published on hellocaria.com.