How to Do the On-Your-Back Quad Stretch
💪 Quadriceps🏋️ Other📊 Beginner🏷️ Stretching
How to perform it
- Lie on a flat bench or step, and hang one leg and arm over the side.
- Bend the knee and hold the top of the foot. As you do this, be careful not to arch your lower back.
- Pull the belly button to the spine to stay in neutral. Press your foot down and into your hand. To add the hip stretch, lift the hip of the leg you're holding up toward the ceiling.
- Switch sides.
Muscles worked
The On-Your-Back Quad Stretch primarily targets your Quadriceps. You'll need other.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the On-Your-Back Quad Stretch slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.