Name: Stop Stretching Your Hamstrings (UNTIL YOU WATCH!!)
Uploaded: 2018-12-13T04:43:58.000Z
Duration: 6 min 58 s
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So we're going to address a very important topic here.

We want to find out if you are an ass, or an ass not.

I'm serious because if you were to look at yourself in the mirror and be serious with

yourself and honest, would you be someone who has your butt sticking way out – and

therefore an ass – or are you sort of an ass not where everything is tucked underneath?

I've got to admit, I'm a little bit of an ass not.

It's because of the position of our pelvis.

I've covered this in a video on anterior pelvic tilt – which is a very common problem.

If you haven't seen it, you've got to watch that video right here.

It will tell you a lot about what to do to correct that.

However, hamstrings are going to be tight in people that have anterior pelvic tilt,

So we have to figure out a way to address that hamstring tightness.

Because in that video I said you're going to likely have tight hamstrings if you have

an anterior pelvic tilt, but it's not something you want to address.

As a matter of fact, you want to do the direct opposite.

You want to continue to strengthen them and not stretch them.

So first of all, how would you tell if you have an anterior, or posterior pelvic tilt?

Most of all, you want to look in the mirror, like I said.

If you were to look and just lift your shirt and look here, you want to focus on the waistline.

So whenever you're wearing your shorts, or your pants, what position is the waistline?

It's normal to have a little bit of a downward tilt to it.

If you had this severe downward tilt, then you're dealing with that anterior pelvic tilt

here, and that's actually not a good thing to have.

I know it looks better, but it's not a good thing to have.

It's an adaptive shortening that you want to correct.

At the same time, if you have a posterior pelvic tilt you're going to likely see a level

line here of the pants, or worse; it could even be tucked under.

The second thing you can do is do an excursion test.

If I tried to go into a more anterior tilt – in other words, if I try to tip my pelvis

down – I would only be able to get a few degrees because I'm already anteriorly tilted.

I have that much motion left to go in that direction, but if you asked an anterior tilter

I've got all that extra room because I had a lot left in that direction.

If you tell me to tilt and tuck my butt under I'm not going to be able to get much further

Of course, it would probably feel tight, but it's something I could actually move in.

so do that test and figure out what you are.

But now when you come over here, do you want to stretch, or not stretch?

Again, I said tight hamstrings, regardless of whether you're anterior or posterior, if

Your hamstring are attaching from the back here – of your pelvis – down to your knee.

To the outside of your knee, or behind your knee.

If my pelvis was anteriorly tilted and pushing in this direction what's happening here to

Because as this is tilting forward it's coming up, and over, and it's causing my hamstrings

The hamstring tightness is not causing this anterior tilt.

The hamstrings are being stretched because of the anterior tilt.

So the tight hip flexors on the other side are pulling this down this way.

That's making the hamstrings feel tight, but you wouldn't want to stretch these because

all that's going to do is let the hip flexors on the front side do more damage, pulling

you more into anterior tilt and causing the problem to become worse.

What you'd want to do is relieve the hip flexors – which is what I made that video about

– that will show you then how to reset the pelvis back.

All of a sudden all this extra stretch goes back down nice, and there's no more tension

On the other side though, if you're a posterior pelvic tilter you've got problems.

You've got really tight hamstrings because what's happening is, they're pulling down

from here and we're pulling down more, which is going to take our pelvis down into this

That 'no ass' look where it's going to tuck underneath here.

Your main problem is going to be tight hamstrings.

Because it crosses the knee here it's going to shift the focus – I'll show you right

I tuck under, I start leaning a little bit more forward, my weight is going through my

toes, by pushing through my toes what's active as well?

I start getting shortening in my calves and my Achilles.

So now I can't even get into dorsiflexion of my feet here because my calves are tight.

So you want to figure out a way to stretch your calves at the same time that you're stretching

your hamstrings, at the same time that you're not allowing yourself to be in posterior tilt.

Well, we can do what I'm showing you here.

Something that allows me to have elevation here.

Then the next thing I can do is, I want to get my knee straight, obviously.

So I'm getting stretched here, back through the hamstring, and then back through the calves.