Ideas for adding extra meat to hamstrings

[Bigtwinjc]

Hamstrings are often tight/"angry" muscles, and they won't grow to full capacity unless it's corrected. You can bomb them with every leg curl variation there is, but they'll just lock up even more. Unfortunately it isn't always an easy fix. You can't just do static stretches for them to increase flexibility/mobility; and you can actually makes the problem worse if you do static stretches too aggressively (I know this from experience). I have to do a lot of dynamic stretching, and active release therapy (as well as other stuff) but it's been an ongoing struggle. Obviously tight glutes will exasperate the problem as well.
If your flexibility is good, I really like good mornings as opposed to RDLs. I feel them more in my hamstrings. My glutes try to take over on RDLs towards the end of a set.

This is exactly my problem. My hamstrings are tight and glutes want to take over. Thank you for your advice

 

[jcc80]

Probably the easiest thing to start off with, is just doing good mornings (with no weight) a few times a day. I'll get up and do them for like 45 seconds while I'm watching TV or whatever. Just get a smooth rhythm going where you're getting a light stretch at the bottom.

Great. Those other three videos are great, thank you very much. Going to give those a shot. Funny thing (not really) is that my son is the same as me, and is even starting to develop scoliosis like me. I need to get him on a routine so he doesn't end up like me.