Inner Thigh Stretches

Inner thigh stretches should be part of both your warm up and cool down phase of your thigh workout. Exercising too strenuously without a proper warm up or cool down is a very good way of setting yourself up for painful muscle soreness afterwards.

DOMS, also known as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness start to take effect on your body between 24 to 48 hours after completing you workout. This is a very uncomfortable muscle soreness usually caused by muscle microscopic tears in the muscle fibers during or after the lowering phase of a movement.

Normally performing a couple of inner thigh stretches 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after your workout can reduce your muscle soreness significantly. However most of the times we stretch after working out and we aren’t very specific in stretching the inner thigh area and find ourselves in a great deal of pain afterwards.

The following inner thigh exercises should be worked into your warm up and cool down. They will prepare your thigh muscles for exercise and prevent the risk of inflicting injury.

Tip: When performing the inner thigh stretches make sure your wearing shoes or your barefooted. Stretching in socks can cause you to slip and pull a muscle.

Inner Thigh Stretch #1 – Butterfly Stretch

When you perform the butterfly stretch sit on the ground with your legs in a folded position but make sure that the bottoms of your feet are touching one another.

Now grab both of your feet together and gently push down on your knees with your elbows while leaning forward.

Inner Thigh Stretch #2 – Sit and Reach

Find a flat surface sit down and straighten out your legs. Now slowly reach for your legs with your hands.

Don’t bounce just hold the stretch and remember
to do this while your toes are in are flexed and pointed position.

This will stretch the back of your thigh muscles this muscle is also referred to as the hamstring muscle.

Inner Thigh Stretch #3 – Seated Straddle Stretch

To do this Thigh Stretch sit down on a flat surface. Now open your legs as far apart as you can get them to open.

Slowly lean your chest forward between your legs this stretch is very similar to the sit and reach inner thigh stretch.

Note: Hold all of the Inner Thigh Stretches for 20 seconds and remember if the stretch becomes too painful or you feel too much strain on the muscle stop immediately. You want to stretch your inner thigh muscle not tear it!

Watch the video below to see a complete demonstration
of each Inner Thigh Stretch and how to perform
each stretch with the correct form.