Standing Hamstring Stretch

Teaching Points

• Stand with one leg just in front of the other
  
  
• Bend the back knee and rest your weight on the bent knee
  
  
• Tilt the hips forwards as if sticking your bum in the air!
  
  
• Hold for between 10 and 30 seconds

Variations

• Sitting Hamstring Stretch

Muscles Stretched

• Biceps Femoris
  
  
• Semimembranosus
  
  
• Semitendinosus

Related Injuries

• Hamstring strain
  
  
• Hamstring tendinitis
  
  
• Contusion