Stretching will do nothing for your hamstrings apart from cause an injury down the road if you don’t focus on strengthening them, especially eccentrically - Your tight hamstrings are the result of weak muscles in the glutes and poor hip function so you need to strengthen your posterior chain, learn how to hinge and progressively overload deep ranges - Incorporate the following: - ✅ Seated and Standing Good Mornings ✅ Single Leg Rdls and Good Mornings ✅ Locked Knee Good Mornings ✅ Isometric Holds

Stretching gets a lot of hate these days, but it actually helps you access new range of motion. It’s a great first step and it opens the door for your body to move differently. Once you create that new range, you want to load the area through the motion to help lock it in. From there, contract the antagonist muscle to reinforce the new length and help the tight muscles relax even more. The real key is consistency. You don’t need to do a lot in each session. You just need to show up, apply the ba

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