Tight Hamstrings – Exercises
September 15, 2010 No Comments
Some clients and especially men have a pre-disposition to tight hamstrings.
Almost everyone can achieve improvement.
These exercises are ones that most clients can do successfully.
Against the wall:
- Stand on slant board with heels against the wall. Slowly bend to flat back from the hip crease.
6” Roller:
- Marching and dead bug.
- Foot as a fish
- Bridging
- Psoas stretch
- Tissue release/massage (sitting with weight on hands)
Cadillac/trap table:
- Shoulder stand
- Hamstring tower
- Monkey
- Parakeet
- Sissors
- Legsprings
- Ballet stretches in sling
- Bridging in sling (straight knees)
Ladder Barrel:
- Climb a tree
- Ballet stretches
Step Barrel
- V-sit
- Shoulder stand
- Leg circles
- Airplane
- Can can
Reformer
- Legwork
- Releves and running
- Leg circles in straps
- Shortspine
- Stomach massage 1 & 2
- Ham stretch in straps
- Bridging
- Side lying legwork
- Psoas stretch (Eve’s lunge)
- Scooter
- Climb a tree
- Split
- Elephant
- Upstretch
- Arabesque
- Tendon Stretch
Mat:
- Stretch with theraband or fitness band
- Rollup
- Sitz bone walk
- V-sit
Pilates Chair:
- Ham stretch 1 & 2
- Tendon stretch
- Upstretch
- Foot and Legwork
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