How to REALLLLY Stretch Your Quads (Best Static Quad Stretch)
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Date: 2022-04-22
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FireTruck
My grandmother was a doctor with a reputation of never being wrong. She said that the only correct way is to lay on your stomach flat with legs tight together without lifting the butt. But whenever I tried the stretch my butt lifted automatically and my spine curved to compensate for lack of flexibility. All she said was I shouldn't lift the butt and when I tried hard not to I had to squeeze the butt really hard and push the legs together to prevent them from spreading. When I did all that I felt a sharp pain in the knee joint while stretching and all she said was that I was an idiot for not doing it exactly as she said and that she is never wrong about stretching methods. The standing stretch was ok without the knee pain. Does anybody have experience with the lying on the stomach kind of stretch and maybe some pain?
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My grandmother was a doctor with a reputation of never being wrong. She said that the only correct way is to lay on your stomach flat with legs tight together without lifting the butt. But whenever I tried the stretch my butt lifted automatically and my spine curved to compensate for lack of flexibility. All she said was I shouldn't lift the butt and when I tried hard not to I had to squeeze the butt really hard and push the legs together to prevent them from spreading. When I did all that I felt a sharp pain in the knee joint while stretching and all she said was that I was an idiot for not doing it exactly as she said and that she is never wrong about stretching methods. The standing stretch was ok without the knee pain. Does anybody have experience with the lying on the stomach kind of stretch and maybe some pain?
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Fritz
I discovered a useful addition to this quad stretch last night. After flexing the lower leg and starting to stretch the quads of the top leg, gently apply the heel of the foot of the leg on the floor to the knee of the limb you are stretching.
Only apply it gently and play around with it a bit because there's a lot of leverage, but you'll find it amplifies the degree of stretch applied to the quads remarkably by extending the upper insertions of the quads. Don't apply the heel too hard and leave the rest of the lower limb on the floor, just apply a little gentle pressure to the knee of the limb being stretched with the heel of the slighly flexed lower limb as shown in the video.
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I discovered a useful addition to this quad stretch last night. After flexing the lower leg and starting to stretch the quads of the top leg, gently apply the heel of the foot of the leg on the floor to the knee of the limb you are stretching.
Only apply it gently and play around with it a bit because there's a lot of leverage, but you'll find it amplifies the degree of stretch applied to the quads remarkably by extending the upper insertions of the quads. Don't apply the heel too hard and leave the rest of the lower limb on the floor, just apply a little gentle pressure to the knee of the limb being stretched with the heel of the slighly flexed lower limb as shown in the video.
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SWINGSETSOUNDS
Will have to try this! Never had any luck stretching my quads the -standard- way, what I have found to be a game changer is placing my toes on a surface that is about hip level and behind me. The surface is now holding my foot instead of my hand. Then I simply dip down and ohhhh man, it-s 1000x better and gets the hip all at the same time. Commenting to see if this is bad for some reason tho.
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Will have to try this! Never had any luck stretching my quads the -standard- way, what I have found to be a game changer is placing my toes on a surface that is about hip level and behind me. The surface is now holding my foot instead of my hand. Then I simply dip down and ohhhh man, it-s 1000x better and gets the hip all at the same time. Commenting to see if this is bad for some reason tho.
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John
Amazing. I play football and this year, I had been in a large amount of pain in what I had originally thought was my hip flexor, but actually was my quad I found out thanks to your other video about hip flexors. So I looked this one up and wow, the pain/soreness is reduced to a minimal. Almost completely gone. Thank you so much. This is why I'm going to school for Kinesiology once I complete my AoT.
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Amazing. I play football and this year, I had been in a large amount of pain in what I had originally thought was my hip flexor, but actually was my quad I found out thanks to your other video about hip flexors. So I looked this one up and wow, the pain/soreness is reduced to a minimal. Almost completely gone. Thank you so much. This is why I'm going to school for Kinesiology once I complete my AoT.
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William
Wow I've been trying to fix an anterior pelvic tilt for so long. Every other video online automatically assumes it is your hip flexors. I did the test and it looks like my Quads are too tight, which makes sense because I genetically have very powerful quads. Thank you for the video! Also, does this mean I should stop strengthening by Quads at the gym and focus more on Glutes an Hamstrings?
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Wow I've been trying to fix an anterior pelvic tilt for so long. Every other video online automatically assumes it is your hip flexors. I did the test and it looks like my Quads are too tight, which makes sense because I genetically have very powerful quads. Thank you for the video! Also, does this mean I should stop strengthening by Quads at the gym and focus more on Glutes an Hamstrings?
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Pooja
Can you tell us another stretch for quads? It still doesn't work for me. Initially it would but now it doesn't. I'm a physiotherapist myself. I try doing the lunge stretch for hip flexors but since it's too tight my knee hurts when I lunge forward so I tried putting a cushion below my knee to reduce the impact but still it hurts.
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Can you tell us another stretch for quads? It still doesn't work for me. Initially it would but now it doesn't. I'm a physiotherapist myself. I try doing the lunge stretch for hip flexors but since it's too tight my knee hurts when I lunge forward so I tried putting a cushion below my knee to reduce the impact but still it hurts.
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hyzteria
Alternatively, if you bring your leg (the one being stretched) into slight hip flexion and tense your abdominals while doing the -wrong- stretch and standing, it will provide you a much deeper stretch and rid you of almost all lumbar extension. Just a thought for those who don't want to get on the floor.
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Alternatively, if you bring your leg (the one being stretched) into slight hip flexion and tense your abdominals while doing the -wrong- stretch and standing, it will provide you a much deeper stretch and rid you of almost all lumbar extension. Just a thought for those who don't want to get on the floor.
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Im
I have an advise for the ppl that have a tight quad/quads, guys first do a stretch which is -
Ly down on ur belly then hold ur ankle and pull it to close as u can to ur back for 20 to 30 sec, then jaug for 20 minutes and ur feel fresh and back normal, do that twice a day and u will be good
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I have an advise for the ppl that have a tight quad/quads, guys first do a stretch which is -
Ly down on ur belly then hold ur ankle and pull it to close as u can to ur back for 20 to 30 sec, then jaug for 20 minutes and ur feel fresh and back normal, do that twice a day and u will be good
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Ryan
Is there a way to take quad stretches further? I'm a climber and I need to be able to lift my foot to head height unassisted behind me while standing. Taking this stretch to the limits (instep touching front top of waistline) doesn't burn at all but I'm nowhere near my flexibility goals
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Is there a way to take quad stretches further? I'm a climber and I need to be able to lift my foot to head height unassisted behind me while standing. Taking this stretch to the limits (instep touching front top of waistline) doesn't burn at all but I'm nowhere near my flexibility goals
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Doorbell
I like the quad stretch they do on the P90X stretch X video where you sit on your one leg while facing forward, laying on your stomach with your other leg behind you and pull on the leg that way. First time I did that I never did one of the regular quad stretches again.
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I like the quad stretch they do on the P90X stretch X video where you sit on your one leg while facing forward, laying on your stomach with your other leg behind you and pull on the leg that way. First time I did that I never did one of the regular quad stretches again.
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