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2. Try One Of These Leg Stretches For Your Tight AF Muscles - AOL

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   Stretching tight leg muscles helps you stay healthy and ready for workouts, according to physical therapists. These are the seven best leg stretches. ... These are the seven best leg stretches ...

3. These 5 Stretches Will Help Loosen Your Tight Hips - AOL

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   Extend one leg to the side with your foot flat on the ground and rock your hips backwards, so you feel the stretch on the inside of your thigh and inner groin (don’t rock all the way forward ...

4. Are you stretching correctly? Fitness experts break down what ...

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   The quad stretch targets the quadriceps and hip flexor muscles as you stand on one leg and bend the knee of the other leg while grabbing the opposite foot, pulling it toward your rear.

5. Triceps surae muscle - Wikipedia

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   A calf strain refers to damage to a muscle or its attaching tendons. [3] [4] A premature return before recovery is achieved will result in a prolonged recovery or incomplete return to baseline prior to injury. [1] Stretches such as alternating calf raises can improve flexibility as well as mobilize legs before running. [4]

6. Piriformis syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Hip adduction is a strengthening exercise for the piriformis muscle. A cable attached at the ankle can be used to adduct the hip, bringing the leg in toward the opposite side of the body. The same equipment can also be used for hip abduction, where the leg starts beside the opposing leg and moves out to the side, away from the body.

7. Calf raises - Wikipedia

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   Bridging exercises are done with a flexed knee to lessen the stretch on the hamstring (a knee flexor) and focus the hip extension work on the gluteus maximus. In that same respect, the reduced knee flexion makes plantar flexion work comparable to a seated calf raise, due to the lessened stretch on the gastrocnemius (like the hamstring, also a knee flexor).

8. 14 stretches to loosen tight hips and prevent back pain

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   Kneeling hip flexor. Start kneel on the ground. Step your right foot out in front of you, with your right knee bent at 90 degrees. Keep your left knee on the ground and stretch the left leg behind ...

9. Achilles tendon - Wikipedia

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   Acting via the Achilles tendon, the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles cause plantar flexion of the foot at the ankle. This action brings the sole of the foot closer to the back of the leg. The gastrocnemius also flexes the leg at the knee. Both muscles are innervated by the tibial nerve. [14]