NFL's Will Witherspoon Teaches Football - Stretching Exercises

Will Witherspoon LB St. Louis Rams Will: First thing is a skip you guys know a skip. Players: Yeah. Will: So let’s start there. [Training] You guys all know B skip. What you’re going to try to do is we’re going to be skipping through. You want to treat that foot likes it up like your just trying to pull and get your toe back into the ground like your sprinting. So it’s going to be… [Demonstrating] [Training] More or less like a crossover stretch, you’re going to crossover with your front leg and we’re going to do the same for 5 yards when we’re flipping around so you are going to start, you go left over right. You want to reach back so you’re reaching back for the toes and on the right foot so it would be just like this. Step, step, step, step, and then when you get the 5 yards we’ll switch that around. Next we’re going to do is what we call the Spiderman Stretch. We just may say a long run walk and your going try leaning your elbow all the way to the instep right here, so you’re going to take a high step and fall. High step, fall. [Demonstration] We’re going to work on that band some more and that crossover and try to keep all that lose and same motion so we all know just step over and step high. Step high. [Demonstration] Backer run with a butt kick and we’ll do a long lead backered run so the first is just bickered run and kicking your butt so just do a bickered run kick. [Demonstration] One of the releasing I like to do which is still to kind of linking you out and kind of stretch your hips and everything is a backered run. But the whole key of a backered run is actually letting your body linking out so instead of just running you know like typical— what you are going to do is kind of a reach online so your.. [Demonstration] And that’s kind hips and key to your explosiveness too. So we all just try that we’ll get one set and we’ll finish this off. [Demonstration] So a little bit more to the groin, a little bit to the hips and everything else and try to get that to loosen up for you, you really start working out. [Demonstration] We’ll do another thing is what we call skipping froggies so put up your hands and your elbows about shoulder height and let’s start shoulder height and the whole point of this one is to really where you lift you got to kind of skip so it’s going to be skip, skip but at the same time that your skipping with that other leg to touch your elbows. [Demonstration] So you try to reach out and touch your elbows. You want those elbows almost as high as your shoulders and that’s your goal to reach. Now what you got to do though is make sure you turn your hips out. There we go because the thing is you don’t want to be sitting here like this because basically your working that out apart what we want to do is work the inner groin so you want to open that hip up to it. WePlay Check out more free skills and drills! Only on weplay.com