Feel a stretch in your right tricep, and then switch sides. Standing with your feet as wide as your hips, step your right foot forward and keep your back leg straight. Come up onto your back toes, and ...

Unlock your flexibility with this powerful yoga hip & hamstring stretch, to deeply open your hips, stretch tight hamstrings, ...

3. Hamstring stretch You’ll need to wear socks for this one. Start lying on your back perpendicular to your doorframe with your but against the wall and left leg bent, foot flat on the frame ...

The standing calf stretch is a simple and effective workout that focuses on the gastrocnemius muscle. Stand facing a wall with one foot in front of the other. Keep your back leg straight and press ...

3. Standing Quad/Hip Flexor Stretch Why it works: “The standing quad stretch opens up the front of the leg and helps lengthen your hip flexors,” Fitzgerald says.

One-legged standing poses stretch one leg while employing the strength of the other, so you balance the contraction and extension of your legs. The result is lean and supple legs that get you ...

Modifications: To deepen the stretch, shift your legs in the opposite direction of the glute you’re currently stretching. Step 1: Lie down on your back with both legs extended out.

From this position, try to straighten out your leg. “Now he's using his arms to pull down on that leg, increasing the stretch he's feeling there,” notes Becourtney.