Can't Touch Your Toes? Your hamstrings are not tight
If I had a nickel for every time someone mentioned their hamstrings being tight. I’d have a lot of nickels! Most of us have felt the sensation of our hamstrings tightening up.You did some deadlifts the day before, you go to pick something up from the floor, and it feels like your muscles are closer to guitar strings than human flesh.That’s an acute response to training, but when we are feeling this tightness in our day-to-day, what’s really going on? Do our hamstrings need to get longer? There may be more than meets the … thigh. Anatomy can give us a lot of clues, so here is a rear view of someone’s upper leg. If we take a look at how ....
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