Instructions

1. Sit on the ground with your legs out straight, feet together
2. Place your hands on either side of your legs with fingertips touching the ground
3. Stretch forward until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings and lock your fingers into the ground
4. Keeping your legs straight, lift your legs off the ground
5. Put your legs back down
6. Repeat the movement for reps

Key points

• Try and keep your hands in the same position while performing the leg raises
• You do not have to lift your legs very high, an inch off the ground is just fine
• Try to stretch further and further into the exercise the more flexible you become