Dynamic Stretching for Runners and Walkers

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

Here are the six exercises:

1. Walking Lunges
2. Leg Lifts
3. Butt-Kicks
4. Pike Stretch
5. Hacky-Sack
6. Toy Soldier

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

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.”