Comments on: Stability Training Reduces Hamstring Stiffness http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:28:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Bill http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Bill Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:21:44 +0000 http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/#comment-365 You are correct...AC did have that in an article, but the original example comes from Gray Cook. You are correct…AC did have that in an article, but the original example comes from Gray Cook.

]]> By: Bob Parr http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Bob Parr Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:24:38 +0000 http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/#comment-364 Speaking of locking up to create stability at the expense of mobility, I think it was Alwyn Cosgrove who once wrote about how he had noticed that trainees who lacked the mobility to perform an overhead squat could easily attain the bottom position of an overhead squat while lying on their backs on the floor. Their inability to do an overhead squat was really the result of compensation for instability. With the stability challenge removed (lying on the floor), mobility was no longer impaired. Speaking of locking up to create stability at the expense of mobility, I think it was Alwyn Cosgrove who once wrote about how he had noticed that trainees who lacked the mobility to perform an overhead squat could easily attain the bottom position of an overhead squat while lying on their backs on the floor. Their inability to do an overhead squat was really the result of compensation for instability. With the stability challenge removed (lying on the floor), mobility was no longer impaired.

]]> By: Mark Young http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Mark Young Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:54:00 +0000 http://billhartman.net/blog/2009/03/25/stability-training-reduces-hamstring-stiffness/#comment-360 Very cool stuff Bill! I've always been of the opinion that having an anterior tilt of the pelvis can put tension on the hamstrings making them feel short and tight when in fact when, in fact, they are stretched long. Perhaps abdominal and hip extension exercises influenced pelvic position and thereby reduced the tightness? Very cool stuff Bill!

I’ve always been of the opinion that having an anterior tilt of the pelvis can put tension on the hamstrings making them feel short and tight when in fact when, in fact, they are stretched long.

Perhaps abdominal and hip extension exercises influenced pelvic position and thereby reduced the tightness?

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