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Do you want Flexible Hamstrings???
Everybody does!
It’s my biggest request – well, top 4 anyway…We care about loose hamstrings because they make everything athletic so much easier! Hamstrings’ role is fine-tuning our movement: orchestrating changing speed and direction.
(Mr. Preventer Practices The Hamstrings Quartet)
Loose Hamstrings keep us smooth, quick and muscularly young.
The funny thing about hamstrings is stretching directly, such as touching for your toes, does VERY LITTLE to get them unstuck!
Hamstrings are tricky because 4 different things together must be done to loosen them.
The Explanation for the Necessary Quartet of drills is all in the anatomy…
The Ol’ Hamstrings are 3 muscles Emerging from the bones of the lower leg (tibia and fibula).
It is very significant that the hamstrings blend attachment points with the BIGGER THICKER calve muscle around the back of the knee.
In flexibility training we must always watch for muscles’ influence on each other! The bigger, stronger muscles always set the tone. Hamstrings are slave to the calves!
The poor hamstrings can’t catch a break from above either! They converge and insert into the base bone of the pelvis (called the ischial tuberosity) –
PROBLEM: The pelvis is controlled by the BIGGER, STRONGER Butt Muscles! This further makes the hamstrings slave to the Butt!
The HAMSTRINGS are stuck between a GastrROC and the ASS-Place! (forgive the forced pun)
The real arbiters of hamstring flexibility are the muscles of the butt and the calve
So here is the lesson, Ranks Fans: If you wanna compose looser Hamstrings, you will need to play a Full Hamstring Quartet:
- Do Deep Tissue release at the Calf (See “Whooping Calf” at RanksAcademy.com)
- Do Deep Tissue Release for the Butt (See “Bitter End” at RanksAcademy.com)
- The Butt Rotator Muscles must Be “Strategically Strengthened” (See Strategic Strength on RanksAcademy.com and PowerWire #13)
- We Need to Do a Big Stretch Incorporating Hammy, Calves and Butt AT THE SAME TIME…This is why I like yoga’s Downward Facing Dog Stretch which gets my vote for Most Important Stretch in The World!
So don’t get down over your Hamstrung Hamstrings. Take a Page from The Ranks Songbook and Get Downward Dog as part of your Hamstrings Quartet!!
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