{"id":9897,"date":"2013-08-23T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2013-08-23T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:54:14","slug":"dynamic-stretching-drills-for-a-proper-hurdles-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/2013\/08\/23\/dynamic-stretching-drills-for-a-proper-hurdles-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Stretching Drills for a Proper Hurdles Warm Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Hurdles Coach, Elisha Brewer,\u00a0discusses the importance of Dynamic Stretches and how each stretch contributes to the flexibility of hurdling. While each event in track and field requires some level of flexibility, the hurdles are the one running event that puts your body in it\u2019s most unnatural position, thus requiring the need to be flexible. Coach Brewer discusses how each movement increases flexibility necessary to become a successful hurdler.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1ArZFZjybs?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The drills begin with some basic &amp; movements that are directly related to hurdle movements and progress to some more complex movements that focus more on stretching out the lower back and hamstrings. She begins with \u201cHigh Knee Pulls\u201d which focuses directly on stretching the lower back and hamstrings, two parts of the body where flexibility are key to become a successful hurdler. From here she rolls right into the \u201cGroin Stretch\u201d, \u201cHip Circles\u201d, and the \u201cHeel\/Toe Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gain more insight and an additional video clip from,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/p\/Track-Field\/Becoming-a-Champion-Hurdles-for-Girls-Track-Field_TD-04262B.html\">Becoming a Champion: Hurdles for Girls&#8217; Track &amp; Field<\/a>. Discover other great\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/c\/Track-Field\/Hurdles-276.html\">Hurdle DVDs<\/a>\u00a0apart of our large\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/cgi-bin\/champ\/aau\/aau-track-and-field-dvds-videos.html?mv_source=z2012AAU&amp;utm_source=08272013-track-newsletter-13&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=track-newsletter\">Track &amp; Field DVD<\/a>\u00a0collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Hurdles Coach, Elisha Brewer,\u00a0discusses the importance of Dynamic Stretches and how each stretch contributes to the flexibility of hurdling. While each event in track and field requires some level of flexibility, the hurdles are the one running event that puts your body in it\u2019s most unnatural position, thus requiring the need to be flexible. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[101783,102109,101564,102162,102161],"class_list":["post-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-track-field","tag-aau-track-field","tag-elisha-brewer","tag-hurdles","tag-kansas","tag-stretching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}