Jen: No, that all wrong.
Robert: I'm just demoing a bad way to stretch hamstring.
Jen: Oh, light demo you had a part badly this morning to get two spaces, so I don't have any room?
Robert: That was an demo? Anyway today its tight hamstrings and what's to do about then here on Fusionfitness TV.
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Robert: Here is the forward bend with loose hamstring, bending odd way over hands touching the floor straight back looks pretty comfortable. Now let's look at someone with tight hamstrings trying to do forward bend and you see round it low back, this might also be a tight low back and I'm just the hamstrings. But it looks pretty painful come out to Jen, with your hands on the floor try to bending your knees this would be a much better stretch for your back it will take tight hamstrings out of the picture and you can do this bend safely. You're some in the watch for your practice in your preppies your hamstrings play a big role on your squat here we see flexible hamstrings nice long back and here you see tight hamstrings. Your hips roll on your knee you, your low back curves if you try to on preppies like this you're as can troubling your low back.
Here is one way to work on your hamstring flexibility sit back into a squat and stop with the point when your hips just start to curve on your knee, here as you see Jen is very flexible, she can sit pretty deep. But look at straight back; let's try some isolated hamstring stretches. A lot of people do this badly or do this wrong here is the right way to do a laying down hamstring stretch. Now, let's look at the wrong way to do one. Here is we see a lot of people do. The Jen yellow back in the floor lift their head up this training pending knees does not stretch, this is a -- I don't know what this is. The key thing is keeping your low back away from the floor as soon as you start rounding your low back you're not stretching your hamstring any more. Here is the standing hamstring stretch that your commonly see people do except, this is the right way to do it.
Here Jen's pulling your hip back keeping your low back long and straight thigh is tight she is breathing deep no bouncing long and slow stretch. Here was a most people usually do, this is in case you've been guess the bad way bend knees, rounded back holding your breathe the hips are coccoid straining the only thing getting stretched here and getting stretch thin is by patience. Anyway if you got tight hamstrings and you want to stretch him here was one break way to do it. Put your foot up on a chairs, as you see Jen doing here then forward and only bend as far as you can while keeping your back straight extend over your leg and move your hip back. Here is the standing version if you don't have chair to put your foot on.
Keep your knee strait bend forward but only as far as you can while keeping your back straight. Keep moving that hip back and this case would be a right hip and stretch and extend over that leg and if you having guess by now this is a bad way to stretch your hamstring its not really stretching your hamstring its over stretching ligaments in your back and might patience is going thinner and my anger is mouthing. Oh! That's better now I'm calming down. A great queue, it's always help is imagine your hips or a cup holding water and why you are doing this stretch you tipping the cup forward don't thing the water out. That will help keep your back in position. Don't forget that sitting all day tighten of your hamstrings too, especially in your car.
Jen: Yeah, that remains me, not to loosing up you can go move your car or my working --
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