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Supine Heel Dig - Knees Straight
HOW: Get set-up laying flat on your back with your legs straight. While keeping your knee straight, dig your heel into the ground as hard as you can trying to bend your knee, but nothing should be moving. FEEL: You should feel the muscles behind...
Standing Hamstring Stretch - Dynamic
HOW: Get set-up standing, feet shoulder width apart, with the side you want to stretch - place the foot slightly in front of the other. While maintaining a relatively flat back, neutral spine, and neutral foot position hinge at your hip and reach for your...
Standing Hamstring Stretch - Dynamic, Foot Elevated
HOW: Get set-up standing, feet shoulder width apart, with the side you want to stretch - place the foot slightly in front of the other on an elevated surface. While maintaining a relatively flat back, neutral spine, and neutral foot position hinge at your hip...
Seated Knee Extension - Overpressure, PROM
HOW: Begin seated with one knee stretched out in front of you. Place your hands over your knee and push your knee straight. Your pressure should be directed down and back towards the floor. FEEL: You will feel this stretch on the back of your...
Wall Squat
HOW: Begin in a standing position with your feet about hip-width apart, no more than a foot away from the wall, and your back supported on the wall. Next focus on lowering yourself down as far as you feel comfortable, then pull yourself up by...
Wall Sit - 45 deg
HOW: Begin in a standing position with your feet about hip width apart. Next focus on lowering yourself half way down and hold this position. Make sure to keep your back on the wall for the entirety of this exercise. The further you bring your...
Squat - TRX
HOW: Begin holding onto the TRX straps with your feet hip width apart. While keeping a majority of your weight on your mid foot slowly lower yourself down as far as you feel comfortable the squat back to starting position. Push your butt towards the...
Single Leg RDL - TRX
HOW: Begin this exercise by balancing on one leg while holding onto the TRX handles. Next, focus on hinging primarily at the hips. This is achieved by bring your torso forward and pushing your butt back. Kicking out the back leg may make it easier...
Hip Hinge - Dowel
HOW: Begin in a standing position with your feet about hip-width apart. Place a dowel behind your back with one end making contact with your head and on your tailbone with the other end, the middle of the dowel should also be in contact with...
Wall Squat - Swissball
HOW: Get a swiss ball ideally set-up between a wall and your back, have it initially placed in your low back region near waist height. While keeping pressure into the ball and the ball, perform a squat and repeat. FEEL: You will feel your leg...