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hey guys in this video we’re going to show you how to fix tight hamstrings

this technique can be used in any muscle in the body and it’s something that’s

very very different nothing that you’ve ever heard before but it’s very very

effective not just in tight hamstrings but any tight muscle but we’re going to

demonstrate on type hamstrings and I’m going to show you first of all why it

works and how it works and then we’re going to demonstrate it okay so first of

all here’s a leg looking from the side we have the back part right here which

is the bottom part called a hamstring and that’s really really tight and what

happens is that when the person goes down it won’t let him go down I used to

have really tight hamstrings and so if you stretch the hamstring if you stretch

the tight muscle it has a rubber band effect where it’s just it’s stretching

and it comes right back and it has to do with how the nerves are activated

anytime you stretch a muscle there’s certain little nerve things in there

called stretch receptors that counter the stretch and that make it more tight

so stretching a tight muscle is not the best way to loosen a muscle what you

want to do is stretch the opposite muscle on the top part of the leg and

that is called the thigh muscle or the quadricep okay so by stretching the top

muscle it sends nerve signals to the hamstring to tell it to relax and turn

off and that has to do with any motion because if I’m moving my arm right now

this is activating and in order for this to move this has to send a signal to the

opposite muscle to relax it and that’s why you could run and coordinate because

you have on-off on-off on-off switches going on constantly coordination between

the front muscle in the back and that provides motion so anytime you contract

a muscle or you massage a muscle the opposite muscle is going to be doing the

opposite action relaxing so this is going to long gait so if you want to

make the hamstrings longer and more relaxed we want to stretch the top

muscles right here and neurologically the signals will come through the spinal

column and relax your hands okay now it might sound kind of strange

because I went kind of fast but I’m just going to demonstrate so I have my person

right here that we’re going to have you stand right here and now of course I’m

using him he doesn’t necessarily have tight hamstrings but we can still

improve on his stretching so I’m going to go ahead and go ahead and just kind

of bring your feet a little bit outward yeah and go ahead and just touch your

toes as far as you can okay so we’re looking he could pretty much touch his

fingers to the floor right there so that’s pretty good so now we’re going to

bring them up and then we’re going to compare this and I’m going to take first

of all that chair if you can be that chair and you’re going to take your your

foot and stretch like this okay yeah perfect and we’re going to stretch this

muscle the front part right here and as you’re stretching it you can kind of

just like stretch it and kind of do this backwards a little bit so you feel

tightness do you feel that okay good now do the other side and of course we’re

doing a real quick demonstration but you could spend a long time stretching the

opposite muscle okay now we’re going to do is we’re going to

take a you can do this on your couch or your bed whatever

now you’re going to actually kneel right here yes okay and now we’re going to

stretch and kind of lean backwards and tell me where you feel this tightness do

you feel the tightness rather right there yeah okay so just relax for a

second let’s do that three times

okay good step off here and we’re going to move this back okay come back over

here okay so go ahead and bring your feet back a little bit now let’s see how

far you can go down you can almost pull mitt yeah interesting eh so we didn’t

even stretch his hamstrings we stretch the opposite muscle you can do this for

any muscle so that is how you can literally almost double your flexibility

without ever stretching the hamstrings okay so if you’re if you like this

technique I have a download you can click below and I actually give you a

you can download a PDF it’s for free on how to do this on all different muscles

and I go through step by step of giving you ideas of how to do it for the upper

back the shoulder whatever okay so I will see you on the next video