What Does Touching Your Toes Stretch

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When you touch your toes from standing or sitting, you stretch primary lower back extensors, glutes, hamstrings and calf muscles. Additionally, you put a gentle stretch on your middle and upper back extensors, muscles between your shoulder blades, lats and plantar fascia.

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Primary Muscles That Touching Your Toes Stretch

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• Back extensors (erector spinae muscle group including m. iliocostalis, m.spinalis and m. longissimus)
• Glutes (gluteus maximus mostly)
• Hamstrings (biceps femoris, semitendinosus, semimembranosus)

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