Heel Taps
A core and oblique-focused exercise performed by reaching side-to-side to tap your heels while maintaining a crunch position, enhancing trunk stability, coordination, and abdominal endurance.
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Hamstring Stretch
Hamstring Stretch increases flexibility and improves the range of motion in the hip. These benefits will help people perform daily tasks, such as walking upstairs and bending over, with ease.
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Instructions
- Sit on the floor with your legs extended and place your hands on the floor just behind your hips with your elbows slightly bent. Bend one knee and bring your heel to the opposite inner thigh; this is a starting position.
- Lean forward and grab the toe of your outstretched leg, feeling the stretch in your hamstring. Hold, return to the starting position to repeat on the other side.
Tips
- Do not push yourself to the point of pain; you should feel mild discomfort but no pain.
Alternative Exercises
Inverted Hamstring Stretch
It stretches the hip adductors (inside the thigh), glutes, groin, and hamstrings and strengthens the quads. Inverted Hamstring Stretch also strengthens the lower part of the core.
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