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3-Minute Leg Stretching Routine on Mat

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About This Video
This video will help you stretch your lower body without any equipment. Coach Nicole will take you through one short set of 4 different stretches that target your thighs (quads, hamstrings, inner thighs) and glutes. You can perform these stretches lying on the floor--just make sure your muscles are warmed up first!
  • Length: 3 minutes
  • Equipment: None
  • Type of Workout: Flexibility (stretching)
  • Muscles Worked: Lower body (quads, hamstrings, inner thighs, glutes)
  • Fitness Level: Beginning to advanced; since this routine takes place in a lying position, it may also be suitable for individuals with limited mobility.
  • Impact: None
  • Safety Precautions: Perform this routine only after your muscles are warm, such as after your warm up or after your workout. Always stretch through your own range of motion, never to the point of pain. Avoid bouncing.

Member Comments

  • The routine was great but the sniffling and the background chatter were distracting - 5/27/2013 6:01:05 AM
  • Loislane33 - GO GIRL. I love FREE and will put up with a little bit of advertising for the FREE site.
    Thanks Coach Nicole for another great short video to keep in shape. - 5/18/2013 11:11:06 PM
  • Good stretches
    I don't mind advertisement and I am always checking them out to see if there is something I can use. I want to keep this site free - 5/17/2013 7:10:13 PM
  • For everyone complaining about the advertising . . . what do you think is paying for this free site? Or any other free site, for that matter? They could pull all advertising, but then you would have to pay a fee to use it. Which would you prefer? - 5/17/2013 9:19:55 AM
  • good stretching exercises, though i will pull from under the knee as someone else suggested for their older clients.

    i do also resent having a 30 second commercial forced on me before i watch a 3 minute exercise video, so i will not be watching it again. - 5/16/2013 7:07:17 AM
  • I do not appreciate being subjected to an advertisement showing the inhumane treatment of animals being demanded for the plates of us meat eaters. I am not vegetarian or vegan and as much as I respect persons who choose not to eat meat I do not like the hard sell to make us meat eaters feel bad about our choices. After all I do not show you videos of the inhumane conditions of the workers who toil to produce the food you eat. It is unfortunate that Spark showed this ad on this video segment as I was so upset by it that I never watch would have been a beneficial exercise video. - 5/15/2013 4:32:46 PM
  • These are some of my favorite stretches! Thank you Coach Nicole! - 5/14/2013 10:30:31 PM
  • More advertisement that wouldn't let you "skip", even though the button appears on bottom right of video. I do not enjoy being forced to sit through ads for goods and services that I have no control of whether I watch or not. UGH - 5/14/2013 8:36:50 AM
  • More advertisement that wouldn't let you "skip", even though the button appears on bottom right of video. I do not enjoy being forced to sit through ads for goods and services that I have no control of whether I watch or not. UGH - 5/14/2013 8:36:49 AM
  • I never have clients pull from the top of the knee for lower back stretch. Always have them pull from under the knee. Much less strain on knee especially in older clients. - 5/14/2013 7:43:40 AM
  • The Video isn't working! I wanted to try the workout ! - 5/14/2013 7:22:30 AM
  • At present my video is not working. Would appreciate a connection to a file I could download with pictures and instructions on the stretches as is available with other videos. - 4/25/2013 8:09:07 AM
  • I'm hoping that these stretches will help me with the cramps I've been getting in my legs during the middle of the night! Fingers crossed! (Feel better Coach Nicole!) - 3/14/2013 3:37:52 PM
  • i enjoyed "watching" the videos. It is late, I have my night clothes on already, but I will do it when I get up. It looked like something I could manage.
    Thanks - 3/1/2013 11:36:55 PM
  • good basic routine - sniffling instructor should seriously consider a re-do -- how is her health? - 2/21/2013 5:31:16 PM

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