#hamstring stretches

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What Are the Best Exercises for Strength and Flexibility?

When looking to enhance your overall fitness, it’s essential to focus on both strength and flexibility. Whether you’re an athlete or someone aiming to improve everyday mobility, balancing these two aspects can help prevent injury, improve posture, and increase longevity. Understanding what are the best exercises for strength and flexibility will empower you to create a comprehensive workout plan…

[necarion]

It's kind of amazing how universal the physical therapist (and biomechanics-based trainer) community opinion is on "don't stretch your hamstrings". This is in contrast to most of my sports coaches and PE instructors, who had us do hamstring stretches constantly.

The best explanation I've seen for "don't stretch your hamstrings" is that "your hamstrings are tight" is usually a symptom of something else, usually weak (or inactive) glutes, but sometimes also weak hamstrings. They can also be a result of tight quads (which probably shouldn't be stretched either). Also, a lot of folks who go to stretch their hamstrings end up stretching their ligaments (bad) or sciatic nerve (bad, and also hurts like hell). The latter is why hamstring stretches were always so miserable to me; I wasn't even stretching them! In general, if stretching [your hamstrings, among others] really hurts, you might be doing a nerve stretch instead and you should stop doing that.

Much of the PT community seems pretty resistant to passive stretching. They'll support active stretching, where you resist the stretch at every point along its range. That seems to allow the muscle to relax by encouraging it to fire first and then relax. (And it seems to work for me.) But when a muscle is tight or sore, it tends to be that the tightness and soreness are a result of something else working incorrectly (obvious exception for "this muscle is sore because I worked it really hard yesterday").

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nobodys stopped me yet. so. even MORE duck team lindy hop au

[puppycat-boydyke]

gender is fake. sex is fake. the only real thing is pleasure.

[chaosshipsailor]

Gimmie Jordie fussing about Kaz’s health. Gimme Jordie giving his vegetables to Kaz’s plate. Gimme Jordie massaging Kaz’s leg because he is the only one who can touch him. Gimme Jordie stretching Kaz’s hamstring with his leg on his shoulder. Gimme Jordie fucking into him while he has Kaz’s legs hooked on his shoulder. Gimme Jordie fucking into Kaz to make him relax. While Kaz bitches about he can't even stop fussing over him even in bed. (His pride hates it, but his heart doesn't.)

Gimme the Crows noticing Kaz’s gait is a bit lighter. Then the limp going back to the same as before. (It's not because of his leg.)

[skeilig]

i love stretching/mobility youtube because you'll finish one routine and the next suggested video is a thumbnail of the stretch/exercise you were just doing with the caption STOP DOING THIS!!!!

[lookinghalfacorpse]

Okay so I think you've written about Dream fucking up his hamstring once after a rougher night with techza but has he ever injured himself in another way like that? Like do his hips ever ache from being spread open for so long ect?

omg yeah can you imagine trying to do missionary with a piglin double your size? boy is basically doing the splits because his legs can't wrap around. or just staying spread for long enough to endure long sessions with phil. if restraints are involved, he tugs against them hard enough that he pulls something out of place in his shoulder.

i think massages and salt soaks would be pretty common in the arctic household

[zeiat]

doing physio exercises is so incredibly humbling. what do you mean my butt muscles are so tight they're giving me nerve pain. what do you Mean i'm bad at turning my head left

[rigginsstreet]

Steve dragging Robin to the gym with him cuz there’s a hot guy he wants to stalk but doesn’t want to seem like a creepy weirdo so Robin has to be there so he can look like he’s just hanging out with a friend instead of drooling over a hot man

Hot man in question:

Robin 5 minutes after she realizes she’s been conned into working out: that’s it I’m LEAVING you’re on your own

Robin walking past the Pilates room seeing this:

“Is this class still open…”

[happyfunballxd]

Good news: after 2/5 days of steroids, my back pain is 90% gone!

Bad news: somehow, sciatica has returned. :/

[zsuuv139]

life hack for stretching while fat: use objects. i got the hamstring stretch of my life by sticking my leg to the top bunk.

second life hack: don't go against gravity. can't kick your heel to your butt for a quad stretch but convinced you still have the mobility? do it laying on your side. i almost cried

[cementcornfield]

tee getting stretched out by a trainer 👀

[phoebastria-albatrus]

i feel like a newborn deer

[bloodiedandbattered]

Y'all ever remember something like "knees aren't meant to hurt" or "I had PT for a reason" and suddenly you haven't stretched your hamstrings in years?

No. Never?

[failfemme]

been awake since 10:30…. time to actually get out of bed and get dressed for work now….. augh

[vwampires]

fun things.....

1) as is common with all people who take T, i hit two years on hrt a few months ago and very been very down in the dumps about changes being slow and not passing etc. because two years feels like a long time (even though it really isn't), BUT!!!! i looked at my hands recently and was like. Damn. these are Man Hands. when did that happen! at pretty cool

2) i've been doing a bit of yoga everyday this month, because exercise is good for fibromyalgia and for the brain AND because i've been super bored and it's something to do. very down in the dumps about not being super flexible and strong immediately (especially when you read the comments and ppl r commenting on how much stronger they feel and how many differences they're noticing even though it's like day 11) BUT! i looked in the mirror this morning and saw the faintest outline of stomach muscles...... feels good :)