Static Stretching for Runners and Walkers

This excellent instructional video from Runner’s World shows five different stretching exercises that you can safely perform after running or walking:

Here are the five exercises:

1. Hip Flexor Stretch
2. Standing Quad Stretch
3. Hamstring Stretch
4. Calf Stretch
5. Lower-Back Stretch

Do you stretch after workouts? Please leave a comment here. Thanks!

By the way, if you are looking for stretching exercises that you can SAFELY perform BEFORE your workout, go here.

Important Update on 30 December 2013: Stretch because it feels pleasant. According to Paul Ingraham, a Registered Massage Therapist and editor of ScienceBasedMedicine.org, in his myth-busting “Quite a Stretch” article, “Stretching research clearly shows that a stretching habit isn’t good for much of anything that people think it is.”