Partner Hamstring Stretch

Teaching Points

• Lay on your back
  
  
• Lift one leg off the floor, keeping the knee straight
  
  
• Get your partner to push it higher until you feel a stretch
  
  
• Hold for between 10 and 30 seconds

Variations

• Wrap a towel around the sole of the foot
  
  
• Grasp the ends of the towel and pull your foot towards your head
  
  
• Standing hamstring stretch

Muscles Stretched

• Biceps Femoris
  
  
• Semimembranosus
  
  
• Semitendinosus

Related Injuries

• Hamstring strain
  
  
• Hamstring tendinitis
  
  
• Contusion