Warm up the hamstrings before you stretch them!

Before you begin working out, it's important to warm up your hamstrings for two reasons. 1. It helps make you more efficient and helps reduce injuries. 2. It helps prevent injury in the long run.

Many people work out for two or three hours per day and never warm up. This is a great idea because warm up helps you stay more flexible and injury free. Warming up for the hamstrings helps make your body stronger and helps you increase flexibility in all your muscles and joints. You don't want to be stiff in every section of your body. The following hamstrings stretches are a great way to increase flexibility and keep injuries at bay. Standing Hamstring Stretch: Take your arms down so that they’re in front of your chest. Stand up straight and take your arms towards the side of your head. Bring your arms to your sides. Do not move your arms from the side. Walking Hamstring: Stretch Stand up straight and walk straight back for a few steps. Then turn and walk back in the same direction. Do this as many times as you can. Bring your arms up to shoulder height and walk back to the starting position.

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Lie on your back and bring your knees up underneath you. Bring your weight off your heels and hold that position for twenty seconds. Lying Hamstring Tension Leg Lift Lie on your side with your legs outstretched. Lift your left leg in the air and tuck your left leg under your body for a few seconds with a lot of tension. Then lower that leg and lift your other leg so it is extended and tuck underneath you. Hamstring Lifting Tension Leg Lift: Make sure the knee is bent 90 degrees and the foot is flat on the ground. While keeping your bent knee in place, lift your leg up in the air and then lower it back down again. Now you are perfectly warmed up and stretched.