Before every workout and after as well, you want to make sure that your muscles are all loose and limber. If you are not stretching before and after every workout, then you are not only putting yourself at risk of spraining a muscle, but a well you are not going to be able to get the most of your workouts.

Most people are not actually even aware of it, but when you do stretching properly before and after a workout, you are helping to boost your metabolism and increase the effects of the workout overall so it is obviously very important to do.

The leg stretching exercise ideas, such as the double leg stretch for instance, are especially important to perform, because you use your legs more than any other parts of your body when you are working out and just in life in general. Making sure that you do each leg stretching exercise properly and hold for the right amount of time is very important.

You should always perform each leg stretching exercise just as directed, and make sure that you never push it too far, because you can end up tearing your muscles and you certainly do not want to do this.

Stretching Ideas

There are a few leg stretching exercise ideas that work very well and which you will want to include in your warm up and cool down routines from now on. One is a hamstring stretch, and to perform it you want to sit on your butt on the floor, and have one leg bent in with the foot towards you almost on your lap, and the other stretched straight out to the side.

Now gently you want to lean forward with both of your hands, towards the foot of the leg that is stuck straight out. Try to reach as far down your leg as you can, hopefully near the ankle at least, but to the toes is best, but again make sure that you do not go too far with your stretch.

Another great leg stretching exercise that you can try is for the quadriceps. For this one you just want to stand up straight, balancing yourself with one hand on a chair or other object, and then you just pull the foot of one of your legs backwards, with the foot pointing up towards your head and hold for twenty seconds, then repeat with other leg.