Unlock Your Hamstrings! [The Secret to Stretching]

In this video, I take you through the principle of being effective in stretching, the key is engaging and strengthening the opposing muscles. I learned this CRACR technique recently and it's been highly effective.
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[@anatexis_the_first]

Good excercise, thanks! Just did 3 sets of 4 reps each leg as advised and feel immediate effects (and a really mean contraction in my quads!). Before the excercise I had about 3cm of air between the floor and my flat palm (could touch fingertips to the floor easily). After doing it, I could reach 7cm further down with my flat palms, basically reaching 4cm into the ground (i stood on a thick book for this). I will incorporate this excercise into my leg days, thanks Chase!

[@ChaseMountains]

Huh…what do you know! it works!

[@brandonjohnson8921]

I love these videos mate! quick, to the point, and extremely helpful!

[@see1play1teach1]

Though I started to watch your gearvideos, your physio advices are much more valuable for hiking and… for life . Thank you Nurzufuss

[@ChaseMountains]

You just exposed my strategy

[@Asianpotato77]

Dude I can't thank you enough. my podiatrist gave me a similar stretch but this specific height related technique really helped me finally gain freedom in my hamstrings. I could never touch my toes and now i finally can after a few months of this. I also don't even hike!

[@Rigus208]

Thank you Chase for this much needed info. I’m so going to use this exercise. All of your video’s are great 👍😇

[@shrimmirhs292]

This routine is priceless. Thank you for sharing this!

[@NielsLaenenZoersel]

This stretch does wonders, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@hugmynutus]

Thanks for these. Your knee/ankle video really helped, these are great!

[@exemptedgryphon2087]

I’m so glad that I found your channel keep it up👍

[@lizusedon9237]

Very helpful thanks Chase 🙌🙌

[@soundinducedflow]

Thanks for another great vid. So helpful that you explain how the exercises relate to hiking, in this case single leg balances.

[@andreasweber7828]

Genuinely a very good workout . And possibly one of the most unpopular exercise for most people. Love it

[@ChaseMountains]

Gotta do the stuff you hate hahahha

[@EK-mx7zb]

Thanks, I have a collection of your great leg stretching and development exercises I try to keep up with weekly...hiker leg strength, hip mobility and knee stretches, balance exercises, squat improvement, and now this too. I have the worlds tightest hamstrings.

[@danny9523]

Great advice 👌

[@lakbaynibegzvlog]

I really needed this 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@jameshaulenbeek5931]

Excellent exercises! While I don't do them as much as I *should* working on the psoas muscles is very important. Stretching and strengthening your core will make a big difference, especially coupled with this.

[@cham_hikes6821]

This is great, I love this. I hike and also run and I'm constantly working on my flexibility. Do you have a recommendation on about how many sets I could work up to or each time I do this? I don't want to over do it. Thank you again!

[@ChaseMountains]

3 sets of 4 reps each side should do it. Maybe twice a week max. It’s pretty intense

[@cham_hikes6821]

@@ChaseMountains thanks again, see you out there someday!!

[@weka6533]

That was awesome thank you. I stretch my hamstrings on the bathroom cabinet while brushing my teeth but aren’t really getting any results, this fingers crossed will do the trick.

[@SlickMaximus]

Analyzing outside the box provides deeper understanding. I use a watch to measure higher foot impact while hiking. The walk stride is set to 2 feet 0 inch and run stride set to 3 feet 0 inch. After 10 miles walking my hamstrings get tight increasing average speed displayed from minimum 2.5 mph (full walk stride) to max 3.7 mph (full run stride). The harder my foot hits ground the more run stride in calculation increasing average speed displayed. Average speed above 3.0 indicates time to stretch tight hamstrings which can reduce average speed back to 2.5 mph. This is a $20. watch made by Krippl Watches placed in my back pocket with wristband removed.

[@NievesValledor]

Great exercise!!! Do you have a quick warm up and stretch routine for before and after hiking? Thanks!

[@ChaseMountains]

I sure do if you scroll way back in my channel you’ll find it

[@philippatidd6745]

Hey, I posted this on another video but I'll do it here too, I'd love a video (or series) on starting as someone who is out of shape. I've had a year of being sedentary and it's not good! But when I start I inevitably go too hard and end up not being able to continue. It's easy to get stuck on the sofa. How to train from relative lack of fitness?

[@ChaseMountains]

So... did it work?

[@The_LaZy_HiKeR]

How frequently should this be done?

[@dooomzzz]

When I’m trying this I only really feel the stretch in the back of my knee and down my calf to my Achilles - do you have any recommendations?

[@user-pn5xz2be2i]

Can we do it everyday;

[@dougnevitt2257]

can this be done with the hip flexors as well? I have a lot of hip flexor tightness from cycling, which effects my walking/hiking gait.

[@ChaseMountains]

I posted a video about how to stretch the hip flexors and strengthen them in one sequence

[@alexkairis3927]

I developed ...... okay single leg balance from 17 years of walking on joists and up and down ladders.

[@ahmadvahab968]

What is the background, what city is that? I know a totally irrelevant question.

[@philippashirkey2192]

Oof... I can touch my toes ok, but not straight out of bed... The exercise was definitely harder than expected, I think I'll get quite a bit of value out of this 😅