WORST Hamstring Stretching Mistake (Don't do this!)

An easy way to make your hamstring stretching more effective. Don't make this hamstring stretching mistake! #shorts #youtubeshorts

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Get the most out of your stretching! We stretch for flexibility and for our mobility health, and so you don't want to handicap your progress! Watch this quick video and make sure that you're not making this mistake! If you are, here is how you can quickly correct it. Stretching your hamstrings is such a huge part of flexibility. Do it right!

[oceanicpears]

I’ve only been doing this for like a few weeks (I think you posted a full video about this a bit ago) and the pain on my back has gone away A LOT. All throughout college I rarely focused on exercises like this. Now that I graduated I realize how important this and other foundation/corrective exercises are through your channel!

[TaraBodyLanguage]

Thank You- rotating the pelvis over the femur bones is essential! It’s such a relief to finally see someone teaching it properly.

[Lildweezy]

OMGGGG THANK YOU. I can touch my toes but couldn't figure out why TF I can't fold in half like paper, I'm just starting my fitness journey again after an accident in September. I want to move functionally and get in the best shape of my life. My best friend showed me your videos a while back and I rediscovered you! So excited thank youuu

[TheNumeroUno]

I tried this and it really works i could feel my hamstrings getting a big stretch. Thank you

[MisterKra]

I add this to "Things I should have known earlier"

[raphaelv]

Last week I figured out why my hamstrings were so tight despite touching my toes all the time, and this video illustrates it perfectly! Thanks for posting!

Ps: I can already feel the benefits of this far deeper hamstring stretch - years of built up tension is finally being released!!

[tobbymand]

I see. Thanks for this. We've been made to focus more on the toe touching than actually stretching the hamstrings without putting the back in distress.

[salehachishti]

I’ve been trying to heal my knee and back pain, this was the BEST stretch I’ve done all week!! I love that it’s so mindful.

[Liam-hodu]

Bruh the lowest I can go with my back straight is standing upright

[lucwijngaard]

I had this for a while now, I'm generally pretty flexible but I can't reach my toes and I feel the problem is me bending my back but I didn't know how to stop it, will definitely try this!

[headkicked]

Love this! This is helping me a lot!

Another good stretch that helped me: grab a towel or a shirt or some cloth, get into a squat and clench the towel at the crease where your legs meet your hips, so that the towel stays. Now put your hands on the floor and slowly try to straighten your legs without dropping the towel.

Because you are already bent at your waist, you can now focus more on the stretch with your legs.

[macaroon]

I randomly started doing this while brushing my teeth in the mornings. Good to know I've been doing the right thing lol

[TRckY_TV]

my hamstrings are so tight I can't do 10% of the exercise ☹️

you make it seem so easy...

[reflectedwithraven]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank THANK YOU!!!!

[Pneuma]

It's also worth noting that while you sit, if you tilt your pelvic bone forward (normally rotated backwards w/ lower back rounding), you engage the hamstrings, allow the spine to rest in a neutral position thus less strain on lower back and engages the core/full kinetic chain up to the head. This along with proper stretching as you've shown here has reversed years of sitting with a few months of consistent effort.

[davidwayne]

This is the EASIEST to fix... in about 5 minutes. Sit on floor- legs spread and lean forward- to comfort zone only.. then use the muscles of the leg youre leaning toward to PULL DOWN like you're forcing that leg into the flloor. Relax and repeat and you'll go lower almost immediately.. on other muscles- FLEX while in the stretch and it will make the stretch capability increase geometrically!!! I'm 68 and have been mashed between 2 trucks in 99 and can stand and put my PALMS on the floor in front of my toes...

[lmc]

thanks, Im doing jefferson curls with a kettlebell all summer so that might help to get into it. Another exercise Im doing is a deficit Landmine RDL, max 1/2 body weight on the bar, built it up standing on smaller plates but now standing on 2 bumper plates so probably 5ish inches off the floor, totally fried the hams last week (in a good way) and didnt feel it in the back. objective is just having some strength and end ROM. Anything to watch out for? most videos I see most people only do 1 inch or so deficits

[manbabu]

Hi...
When I was doing shoulder strength exercise using band I think one of the nerve got punched inbetween the spine...I'm facing severe pain around scapula and it runs through shoulder till my finger tips...since a month I've tried somany painkiller medicines but no use could you suggest me som stretches to relieve it...🙏🙏🙏

[TheRealNickChang]

Did I read it right that the Jefferson curls should be done for time and not for reps? Do I hold the entire 30 secs at the bottom doing 1 "rep" or do I just kind of grease the movement with multiple reps once I reach the bottom ?

[WanderTheNomad]

It's like the muscles in the back are connected directly to them hamstring and you're pulling the back muscles taut to get a better stretch in your hamstring.