In this video you will learn two of the best methods for stretching out your tight hamstring muscles.
While it is typically thought that stretching your hamstrings will lead, over time, to your hamstrings lengthening, the reality is actually quite contrary to the belief.
For one, the neural stretch tolerance is what is actually increasing when you do stretch out your muscles. Secondly, your neural pain tolerance comes along for the ride. Which obviously means that you get better at handling a certain level of pain when you do so happen to stretch.
Because of this, we can employ simple methods for going about actually improving your flexibility for far more movements than what are gained by performing the simple static/PNF/dynamic stretching approaches.
And while you might initially think that the stretches are going to be difficult, they are actually incredibly easy, not to mention really satisfying.
To learn about the methods behind these two stretches, leaving you with knowledge to go about improving any area of your body’s flexibility, check out the video below.
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