I have slight anterior pelvic tilt & saw Athlean-X say not to stretch hamstrings as it'll make it worse but my hamstrings are soooo tight. Should I just stretch them anyway?

@carson8982

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same issue, and thats a interesting question. athlean does know his stuff but some of his facts seem contradictory. Im interested what kind of answer you will get for that question. I imagine the more flexible and symmetric our bodys are the better they will funtion.

@lucasrufino

4 жыл бұрын

I think that in your case it would be better to do only the stretches that strenghten the hamstrings while stretched, such as the good morning and the jefferson curl, so it would maybe even help fix your anterior pelvic tilt, along with stretching the hip flexor and strengthtening the glutes

@mahoganymarco9199

4 жыл бұрын

I also follow Jeff cavaliere, saw the video, interesting question and myself as well I have anterior pelvic tilt... I feel that I still should stretch them. Will wait for a good advice here..

@yoyoyo6321

4 жыл бұрын

I mean I do warmups on leg day and one of my dynamic warmup exercises is to walk in a straight line and kick outward with one leg to stretch the hamstring. I keep my core tight & a neutral spine & sometimes when I kick out I look left at the mirror & notice how my leg isn't even close to being straight. It's like I'm kicking out with my leg almost in a 90 degree angle at my knee meanwhile I watched the Packers game yesterday & they showed a pause on the punter with his leg straight up in the air perfectly straight. I feel like I should be stretching my hamstrings lol

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

Great question and this is one that’s definitely up for debate! It makes logical sense to not stretch the hamstrings because they actually need to be strengthened to anchor the pelvis. But like many things in the body, it’s not that simple. Most of these stretches are loaded which brings a strength component to the range. Optimally you want strength in the Hamstrings in a locked knee position AND in knee flexion like a leg curl or Nordic curl. Furthermore the Jefferson curl helps stretch the spine into flexion which can greatly benefit anterior pelvic tilt... it’s helped me solve that whole problem. My answer... stretch them and see how you feel. I’m more into improving and maintaining all ranges of motion of the body rather than “if then, then that” type of approach. I’m interested to hear if anyone else has a different point of view?

Anyone hear dem Microphone Gainz? Haha. This video took me forever to make. Hope it helps you guys 😀. If you have any hamstring flexibility questions OR if you have some advice to fellow tight hamstring guys n gals, make sure to post em below! Gym Tour coming later this weekend 🤙.

@AndrewRiscart

4 жыл бұрын

this video was great. Thanks for the time it took!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

appreciate yah bro!

@panchopirata5593

4 жыл бұрын

My hamstrings are very short of ROM, so I really want (and need) to get more flexibility. Would you recommend me these exercises even when I have some lower back pain?

@andrearizzovast4826

4 жыл бұрын

Gracias realmente me salvaste!!! Es la segunda vez que me salvas. Haré estos ejercicios todos los días 😇

@alfredkaizirege

4 жыл бұрын

Man, how old are you? some of us are old and stiff, I am 37 not stiff though a bit flex but it's very difficult for me to do these. does age matter does it affect progress.

My advice is to follow Strength Side's advice

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

my advice is to listen to Chrissy's advice about Strength Side's advice.

I like how you added the text with the sets and reps before going into the stretches. I've been waiting on this one to complement The Daily Practice. I appreciate your authenticity and positivity. Keep doing you!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I did that last minute because I knew people would ask! haha

Right on time, I really needed this. Thanks!

Yo Josh. I love your videos man, especially your "Zen-like follow along routines." Keep em coming

Excellent explanations and demos. Thanks!

Excellent vid, mate! I love the cool, calm, clear instructions and safety teaching points 👍

Thank you for sharing these movements, they are very essential for our mind, body, and soul! Positive vibes and peace brother 🌞🙏🏽

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

truth. blessings to you as well brother!

Great, I will it 2 months. Been suffering for yrs with tight hamstrings. Message won't loosen them. Doing the daily practice and your stretching routine for beginners has helped me a lot. Thanks for this video. BIG HELP!!! Great job.

Our wish has been granted! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and good vibes!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

u got it my man!

This is gold. Thank you Josh. As I work more on flow type movements, it's become apparent that hamstring flexibility is my biggest limiting factor. Going to get to work and incorporate these throughout my day.

These are some of the best hamstring stretches I have ever found. Personally I couldn’t even touch toes previously, fingertips could only get half way down shins. After doing some of these stretches/movements regularly for about 5 weeks, I can now touch toes. I’m going to keep progressing and using your routine - thank you! 🙏

All of this is really great man! Thanks so much.

Great video. Thanks you so much!!

You are great Josh !

love the sequence. feeling the flexability right now.

I am just beginning to learn to walk and take my movement seriously at age 44 so my Hammies are STIFF. You are encouraging and inspiering and a great motivation. I use your videos and practice as it goes along. Pausing when i need to do the other leg or stay in the stretch. Thanks for sharing and teaching about this. Will comment my own post in 2 months and see if what the progress is!

Yo man, I’m going to be making some serious changes with my lifestyle. You’re a big part of that. Just wanted you to know.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I'm really happy to hear that bro. Keep stepping forward

Best 11 minutes of the WEEK if not the MONTH and quite possibly the YEAR!!!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

🙏Thanks Mike

Great advice! Thank you!

Great stuff, as always 👏

Thank you so much I’m so happy I found this video

I used to be very active while in the military. Now that I am out my job consists of sitting at a desk A LOT, and I am a gamer so that's even more sitting. Didn't realise just how tight and ridged my hamstrings where until I tried to do these stretches without bending my lower back. Needless to say I've a lot of work a head of me. Thanks for this channel!

Thanks for your work, bro!:)

Thanks!

Great video

Very well done. Sir.

Love your channel man very good exercises been doing this type of stuff for a long time but still learning these exercises are new to me thank you

Great vid

Thank you, I really was looking a way to get more hamstring flexibility. I will try them next week!!

Great moves

I'm especially excited about the cossack squat, it's a little challenging, also the Jefferson, it's very challenging in it's simplisity, love your videos bro, keep up the good work!

good exercise !!!

Thank you very much for the video :)

Very useful

عمل رائع ... شكرا جزيلا

Excelente!.

You are my mentor dude! Improving mobility is the key to live a better life!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I believe that too buddy 😀

Have you ever fallen forward off that table? This is great. I am 49 and never really done stretching seriously. This is a situation I fully intend to resolve and I have started doing yoga. That said, some bad form in lower stretches has started making my lower back ache. I now know to keep engaged in the core and stop flopping forward. I think for me it’s about resetting the target. Forget about touching the toes and concentrate on effect safe stretching of the hamstrings. It’s funny how changing the goal can help the mindset so you don’t push to much and mess up form. Thanks for these videos.

Love your videos. You should do a video about the role the Sciatic Nerve plays in hamstring stretches (burning pain in the back of the knee). How to avoid it and floss through it. Keep up the great work!

Thanks awesome video as always you never cease to amaze the human body is just an incredible creation and you guide us on making the best of us! Namaste!

Your video(s) are saving my mind & body during this pandemic! Thank Josh! One noteworthy advice -personal favorite- to help the body / hamstrings recover is swimming (when a pool is available). Second best is the foam roller: you already got a great video on that ;)

thank you 😆

GREAT video man!!!...and anyone who is just starting to perform kicks..ESPECIALLY side kicks...these mobility exercises will help a LOT because when performing these kicks..you use hamstrings a lot...and will tighten easy

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

mmmm so true man! Very functional advice

Thanks for the next Inspiration :) PEACE, LOVE AND RESPECT all the way from POLAND

good warmup workout

Thank you so much for this video, my hamstrings are horribly tight. I will check back in a couple of months but I appreciate you taking the time to make this video.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

jckpc please do! I wanna see some progress 😁☑️

Good Video...

♡ LOVE THE BEAR WALK ♡ and the Jefferson Curl ♡

Thanks

Once again really enjoy this video great content. Anyway to get you to teach handstand progression?

Thank you for the different exercises. Cross fingers, that I see progression soon :)

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

u got this

I'm SUCH a beginner but I AM loving your channel, thanks, keep it loose~~~

Awesome video. Some yogis call it "walking the dog", BTW.

Thanks for sharing . I’m so stiff and it’s blocking for the pike push up correctly . I will do these exercices thanks again

Eric Wong and Naudi Aguilar has a good point about how the strength of the muscle opposite the hamstring can affect range of motion. Eric Wong does the early standing stretch with one leg on a box but then lifts the leg for intervals in between, strengthening those muscles. This is similar to how the Ashtanga yogis do it. Naudi Aguilar uses a band to provide the tension on the opposite muscle while using a ball to massage the fascia on the hamstring.

Love the microphone quality! :) What about sciatica pain going down from butt to leg, I saw some videos saying not to bent forward. So better to avoid harmstring stretches while sciatica pain?

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

Artificial Perception id recommend working on some hip rotation. Search “strength side pigeon pose”

I will give these stretch exercises a try I'm recovering from a car wreck from 2018 and hamstrings are extremely tight so hopefully this will help and of course I have to take it slow and easy it's been a long road back

Wow!

My hubby sent me one of your videos and I just started subscribing! Love how I formative they all seem to be! I did gymnastics for 16 years and then cheerleading in college BUT I haven’t done ANYTHING active for about 16 years and I’ve had 2 kids in that timeframe. I do not workout but started stretching/yoga about 1 month ago. I can’t BELIEVE how tight my front hips and hamstrings are😩😩😩🤦🏾‍♀️ It’s embarrassing! I couldn’t even touch my toes when I first started. I’ve made progress but it’s gonna take a ton of time and consistency. I try to stretch about 30mins to an hour a day 7 days a week. Is that too much? I’m just so eager to see good progress but my muscles couldn’t be any tighter. I’m 5’0” and 110lbs. Please tell me I’ll see progress soon! Lol

Hey man I'm just curious to know how you go about balancing out your practise schedule between workouts, static hold moves and stretching out within the week. Personally I dance, workout and work on my mobility/stretching and trying to fit static moves without pushing the body too far is a bit difficult. Anyway thanks for the awesome video this was very insightful

Those shoes tho! 😆

Buenísimo!!!!! pero el ultimo imposible!!!!!jajajaaaj

"... I used to be stiff as a brick..." Damn, Joshua. You didn't need to get so personal with us 😂.

Love your work. I feel you have a very intense awareness of your body which translates to awesome Intruction

Hey man, do you have a before and after picture from when you were lifting weights at your heaviest to where you are now? Nice one

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I'll probably do some type of transformation video in the future. You can scroll back deep in my youtube though and see my changes

Wassup Josh keep up the work you doing great. Bro I’m going through some rotation deficit on my right shoulder wanted to know if it is recommended for me to follow along the Road map to strong shoulder in order for me to get that shoulder in place? Peace bro

I like to lay flat on my back and use a strap to pull the toes toward the forehead. If you loop the strap behind your head then you can really relax into the pose. Laying down insures that you won’t round the back so it really isolates the hamstring

Great video! Not so easy lol

Yo Spartan! Every time I see you touch your toes to your head I think of Wee Man kicking himself in the head lol

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO that takes some range!

Not through your squat videos yet so you might have some calve and ankle exercises in there but could you maybe do a separate video on that? It's what keeps me from squatting correctly and I aim at being able to do the deep yoga squat without my knees and ankles turning in. My knees generally tend to turn in and my thighs feel really stiff, it just doesn't feel right and I'm really struggling.

Can you share some diet and nutritional information?

Can you please add to the description of the video (or this comment) how should we progress with this? For example, for a total beginner with very tight hamstrings, your first routine is the "Hamstring Stretching Basic Level" which says "each exercise 3 sets 3x per week", but it is now clear for how long we should perform this. What is the criteria to start the next level?

Hello I love your videos. I have about intermediate flexibility and I am making great improvements already. I have SI joint issues and my doctor said that deadlift type movements could worsen my issue. I know my lack of hamstring flexibility is holding me back though. Funny thing is I can put my palms down on the ground flat with the forward fold. But I can't do a forward fold while sitting. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for the inspiration!!

As usual awesome video Josh! I’ll be starting at the beginning level my hamstrings are tight. Btw I can’t seem to get my legs to 90 degrees while doing straight leg L-sit holds, will these stretches and movements help?

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

A combination of these stretches and more L sits will do the tick

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

trick

@steveyoung9522

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bro I tried them today and worked on L-sits too, the one minute deep squat and one minute dead hang (30 seconds is my limit for hang) are helping too! Mahalo!!!

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

@@steveyoung9522 30 sec is good! You're grip strength will improve quickly as well :)

@steveyoung9522

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the responses it’s really helping me, I’ll keep with it!

I’m team stiff as a brick! Regular runner aged 40. Can barely touch my toes and any massage hands or gun on my hamstring gives me the giggles.

Good bay love you

hi Josh plz show some upper back fat strencth or movement for upper back

Gracias Josh!!! Muy buenos estiramientos ya pronto me tocaré el dedo gordo del 🦶 🤗👏👏👏

Thanks Josh, love your work. I must be stiffer than a brick because I can barely reach past my knees. I'm fit and active but just haven't been able to improve my flexibility. I'll give your basic stretch combo a go and hope for some kind of miracle progress.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

no miracles! Just steady and consistent effort and the results that come along!

Josh, when I do the deep bends like Good Mornings and Forward Folds, I feel a powerful stretch in my lower calves and Achilles, and hardly any in my hamstrings. Is this because the hamstrings cross the back of the knee and pull on the lower parts or should I be doing some targeted stretches for this area? Yes, I'm fully locked out in the knees and keep a straight back.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

Just means your calves are tight! Can you sit in the squat?

@rosselliot8971

4 жыл бұрын

Strength Side Sure. Sitting in a deep squat is easy for me.

buddy upper body strength and movement plzzzzzzzzz😩😰🤕

Hey Josh, I can’t do the Cossack stretch because I fall backwards every time I try to lower down. What’s going on and how can I level up to crush the Cossack? Thank you for your helpful reply.

I didn't realize how inflexible my hams were, I can barely do the first stretch without rounding my spine.

Haha, that woman at 9.20 is watching you

What do you call that box?

thanks brotha! your flexibility is impressive indeed, reminds me that I can do better :). Are you a vegetarian?

@adamisaac4685

4 жыл бұрын

No he eats meat and veggies. Paleo. He eats whatever he wants.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I eat whatever I want 😀 ^^

so did you mention how many times a week you recommend doing this sequence? Just tried some of the sets, It's official; I gotta do this.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

around 2-3x week

@AndrewRiscart

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

In the first excercise I can only move one freaking inch before my hamstrings get tight.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I've had a lot of people start just like that! Just keep working on it... progress comes!

How about sitting pike ? I can touch my toes but in sitting forward fold I can't. My pelvis are rotating back and I sit in angle > 90.

@Strengthside

4 жыл бұрын

I don't use that stretch too much. It's not very loaded so I find it doesn't; make much change

I have a big problem. I can touch my toes but i can’t do it without curling my lower and upper back. When doing the first hamstring stretch you showed us, I can’t even bend forward a bit without curling my lower back. What can I do?

1:39

Hamstrings are a bitches for me. I work on PC mostly, im riding a road bike, im spending evening on PC. My legs are all the time bent, i literaly cant sit on the ground with legs straight. Stretching is very difficult and painful sometimes. As i like to workout, i hate stretching my legs.

Mine are so stiff that I have pain behind the knee before even getting into the hamstring stretch ...

I would have preferred the format of a follow along vid, but anyway, thanks for tackling this one! 👍

where am I at with my hamstrings? Dude cant even touch my toes! I cant even imagine that you once had bad flexibility.

Great muscles! Great agility! Good legs and feet! sttgaegoaktd

Would have been informative if you gave guidance to warm up or not to warm up as hamstrings are funny muscles

Sir please remove buddha statue from that area because ur keeping shoes besides to him