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• How to warm up the quads for running or a training session with this dynamic mobility exercise.
  
  Video Transcript:
  Hey it’s Nick Ortego here. I’m going to show
  you how to do a dynamic mobility drill.
  It’s called heel-to-butt. This one will
  loosen up the quads especially the upper
  quads,
  especially the hip flexor, the rectus
  femoris part of the quad, and also
  activate the glutes. So what you do is
  just as you’re walking you let one foot
  come up toward your butt. Grab the foot,
  grab the ankle with the hand pull the
  knee back and then switch, and switch. Do
  your best to try to keep the heel up
  rather than but you may have to do a
  little bit of… when your quads are really
  tight you might have to do a little bit
  of side flexion in your torso to get the
  angle. Once you do though, don’t stay
  there. Instead get tall, pull the knee
  back at the same time. We’re working on
  the extensor chain, the glutes, the core.
  We’re getting the body ready, full hip
  extension. If you sit at a desk all day,
  quads are most definitely tighter than
  they could be.
  If your upper quads are tighter than
  they could be, you are operating with
  your parking brakes on. You’re not
  getting full hip extension where you’re
  running, squatting, deadlifting or doing any
  kind of overall full-body physical
  activity. Give that a try, use it as a
  warm-up 20 reps or so on each side or
  just go for a certain distance like 30
  yards, 30 meters, something like that. Got
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Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
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