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All Things Hamstrings: Cramps, "Yoga Butt", Flexibility, Strength, & More

Yoga Meets Movement Science

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Do Hamstring Shortening Cause Postural Tightness?

For the hamstrings to actually shorten the attachment points would have to get closer. So, so if the question is really, do they get, do they lose range of motion from sitting? I think it depends what else you're doing, right? If you don't use the range of motion that you have, then yeah, it's not because of sitting. It's like this bigger picture and kind of on a related note, when it comes down to do quote tight hamstrings again, tight is that nebulous term. But as we talked about in the last podcast episode, there's a much bigger picture there. Do tight hamstrings cause like create posture to begin with or is posture

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