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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- The real most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- I stumbled on my words a little bit.
Today we gonna talk about three ways
you should never, ever stretch your hamstrings.
- Right.
Why Bob? - Why?
- You're gonna find out in just a little bit.
- Now, tomorrow night we're gonna show
the correct way to do it, right?
- Right, 'cause the people are gonna ask.
So just wait, you got 24 hours
and you're gonna find out how to do it.
So I'm ready Bob, just roll.
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- So hamstring flexibility these things just drive me crazy
and I think any physical therapist will agree
with what we're saying.
There's going to be a number of people who
may disagree, - Will disagree.
- But.
- This is in our opinion.
- This is, we're experts in the field.
We're body mechanics,
and we've got a lot of scientific information
that supports us.
- Well beyond that Brad,
I've treated a lot of people who've done it this way.
You know I mean over time-- - Injured people?
Yeah, injured people - Right.
- that insisted on doing it this way.
- Right.
So are we going to have someone demonstrate
the number one way that drives?
- Do you want to do that one first Liz?
You ready? - Liz are you ready?
We're going to get our...
- So this is Liz, this is our camera woman.
She has her own channel,
along with her husband.
It's actually a really funny channel.
It's called The Family Product Channel.
- Sure.
- We'll put a link down below,
they do products and stuff like this.
So Liz can't talk because she has no microphone on.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- We won't say anything about that.
So I'll make sure we're filming right.
- Okay, we got Liz out here for a couple reasons,
she's much better to look at then us.
I can not do, I call it the Hip Fold
and I don't know,
you keep your legs straight,
you try and touch your toes,
which it does stretch the hamstrings,
but it also puts a lot of stress on the low back,
and if you've got any kind of
low back problem, particularly if you have
sciatica or a disk problem,
this is really going to stress it and make it worse.
But Liz, I don't do it.
Because I've got a back issue
so I quit doing this many years ago.
Go ahead and show it.
A lot of people are able to do.
Now are you comfortable there?
- Yeah. - She's doing
a really nice Hip Fold.
Are you feeling a stretch in your hamstring?
But look at her back right here.
It's all rounded over and everything is being stretched
from the sacrum all the way up to T12
and it's just stretching and putting a lot of stress
on every disk, particularly S...
- [Bob] It's making me uncomfortable even watching it Brad.
- Yeah, how do you do it?
- [Bob] Come back up again.
- Well I'm red in the face.
- Were you feelin' stress on your back?
- [Bob] We can't hear her Brad.
She's saying yes.
- She's saying yes.
Wait, wait, wait sit down please.
We're going to do the log sit.
This is another one. - By the way Brad
I want to make one comment about that.
- Please do.
- [Bob] I've seen people argue, yoga people,
that will say, hey I can keep my back straight
while I do that hip hold.
There's no way.
You might be straight from like L4, L3, L2, and on.
- Right.
- [Bob] But there's somewhere where
you're getting maximal flexion.
Now, wouldn't you agree Brad?
- There may be a few exceptions but by and far...
- [Bob] I would say still at some point you're
getting flexion at the spine.
- I would agree Bob.
I'm just giving those people a little benefit of the doubt.
- [Bob] Alright, I know,
but either way it's not good for you.
- Right.
The comments are coming in already Bob.
- [Bob] I know they are.
- Okay, now this one is my second worst peeve.
Is people that want to stretch their hamstrings like this.
Again, yes it stretches the hamstring,
but it does not in any way isolate them.
You're stretching a lot of low back muscles,
and your stressing the disks in a bad direction
the most injured way that disks gets herniated
is this type of movement.
- [Bob] The thing is your stretching
your back in that direction
almost throughout the day already,
you don't need to stretch your back.
- And you cannot breath this way.
- No. - How do you breath?
So you cannot breath well if you cannot breath and relax
you cannot stretch well.
You need to relax. - Just relax.
Actually can you do that real quick with that shirt?
Yeah, there you go.
- What's Alex going to say?
That's his wife. - No.
Her wife.
The problem is it was so, yeah there we go.
It was so dark it just looked like one
amorphous person. - This is much easier to see.
Now we've got her here we might as well go to my next.
The Hurdler's Stretch.
I was taught to do hamstring stretch all the way through
high school and track doing The Hurdler's Stretch
and there's two ways that you can do it.
The first and worst way in my opinion,
left leg out please,
were going to do the figure four, knee, there you go,
and go ahead and stretch.
Exact same mechanics on the back.
You're really working on the low back in a negative way,
and yes you're getting some hamstring here,
maybe some isolation.
Can you do the real hurdler stretch?
You never hurdled did you?
- No, I didn't.
- (Bob and Brad laughing)
Some people get the knee farther out this way.
- [Bob] There you're kind of doing a double stretch
is what you're doing.
- Right, and this probably isolates the hamstrings
a little bit more, would you say so Liz?
- Yeah. - Yeah,
but you're still...now you're twisting
the low back and flexing it which is even putting more
unneeded stress on the low back,
and she says it's uncomfortable.
- [Bob] You said it's uncomfortable, right.
- So those are the ways to
never ever stretch your hamstrings again, thank you.
- [Bob] And remember tomorrow night we're going to
show the right way to do it.
We're going to show you safe ways to do it.
Why do it bad when you can do it good?
- Right, and they're easier to do it good.
Easier, easier.
- [Bob] Alright, thanks Liz, remember check out our channel.
Thanks a lot. - Thank you.
- [Bob] Oh, I better turn it off.