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May I add, one thing that is common in our culture is called "anterior dominance" - that is, too much activation of the muscles on the front of the body (tightness, etc, due to overuse, emotional tension and poor posture) and not enough activation of the muscles on the back of the body. The correction is to rebalance it - increase the exercises that use the muscles on the back of the body (glutes, hamstrings, back muscles - including the small stabiliser muscles of the spine, etc). I hope you agree Kit. Please let me know if you dont. I was put on to this when two of my students had reported pulled hamstrings from doing very simple things, and got me reading up why it might have happened. After that, my classes always included exercises for activating the posterior muscular chains of the body. Jim.

Day 271 of stretching and flexibility Summary: It's been WEEKS since I've done a serious hamstring, quad, hip flexor, pirriformis and calves routine that includes C-R Observations During hamstring stretch, placed less emphasis on pushing front leg out and more focus on driving hips back (that seemed to bring on a very strong sensation in the hamstring) Discovered I can really feel the calve stretch by increasing the height of the block (in this case, my foam roller) to rest my toe on. I noticed that after this type of calf stretch, I feel a little bit more relief in my plantar fasciitis (we're still at about 90% recovery but not fully there yet) Can notice much more difficulty getting into right pirriformis stretch when compared to left side Felt EXHAUSTED (in a good way) not only that night, but the following day; properly sore in hamstrings and hip flexors so I definitely pushed pretty close to my limit Also, every day at the London underground station I take, there lives a whiteboard that contains a "thought of the day" and today's seem relevant not only to life, but especially to those who are on this stretching and flexibility journey

Fundamentally, this is nonsense, @DeclanJ. I agree that one does see this a lot. I don't want to comment on the professions that take this line except to say that an anterior pelvic tilt is very common in our culture, and that an anteriorly tilted pelvis can inhibit the glutes, not the hamstrings. So, part of any glute activation program must include serious hip flexor work (hip flexors are the #1 cause of APT). The only way to completely rehab. a hamstring is to make it stronger than it was in the ROM where it was strained. The single-leg Romanian deadlift is, in my experience, the best way to do this. Perhaps you could tell us how you strained your hamstring.