Gluteal Stretch

Teaching Points

• Lay on your stomach and bend one leg up under your stomach
  
  
• Lean forwards to further rotate and flex the leg and increase the stretch
  
  
• Hold for between 10 and 30 seconds

Variations

• Gluteus Maximus Stretch
  
  
• Outer Hip Stretch

Muscles Stretched

• Gluteus Maximus
  
  
• Gluteus Minimus
  
  
• Gluteus Medius
  
  
• Piriformis

Related Injuries

• Piriformis Syndrome
  
  
• Trigger points in the gluteals