Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Range of Motion

HamptonU
HamptonU
Posts: 1
Joined: 2007/09/17
United States
2007/09/17, 11:56 AM
I'm attending a wellness class at my gym and we are doing a range of motion project concentrating on hamstring flexibility. As part of this project, I'm doing a random flexibility assessment. Lay on your back and raise one leg in the air keeping the other leg flat on the floor. Make sure your raised leg is straight as possible. After a few seconds of stretching, is your raised leg 90 degrees or more from the ground? If so, you're considered to have good range of motion. If not, then a stretching program is recommended. I'm interested to find out how many people can actually do this? Just to let you know, I could only get to about 45 degree...I suck!
ecle5c
ecle5c
Posts: 1,312
Joined: 2003/07/10
United States
2007/09/17, 01:16 PM
How much of that ties in with hip flexibility?
ky151
ky151
Posts: 74
Joined: 2004/01/20
United States
2007/09/17, 02:32 PM
Well, I could only get up to about 75 degrees before my hamstrings started screaming for mercy! I'm really tight which means I definately need to stretch more.