The Real Reason Your Hamstrings Are Still Tight — A Mobility Breakdown for Teachers & Students
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Most people assume tight hamstrings are a stretching problem. They're not. Hamstring tightness is almost always multifactorial, which means the solution requires a broader range of strategies — not more of the same stretching that hasn't worked.
On this podcast, Jason breaks down 6 evidence-informed strategies for improving hamstring flexibility that go well beyond passive stretching. Whether you're a yoga teacher, yoga student, or anyone focused on mobility and movement quality, these strategies will change how you think about — and train — your hamstrings.
What you'll learn:
-Why foam rolling works neurologically — not just mechanically — and how to use it as a primer before you stretch
-Why strengthening your glutes may do more for your hamstring flexibility than more stretching ever will
-How weak hip flexors limit anterior pelvic tilt — and why that directly limits hamstring length
-Why your adductors (especially adductor magnus) may be quietly working against your hamstring flexibility
-How dynamic stretching and engaged stretching give your nervous system more feedback — and unlock more range than passive stretching alone
-Why hamstring tightness is almost always multifactorial — and why there is no single magic technique
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| 0:28.6 | yoga land. Hey everybody. Welcome to Yoga Land. I am Jason Crandall. A couple of days ago in the live |
| 0:37.4 | session of my 300 hourhour teacher training program, |
| 0:40.6 | I got a question from one of the participants about hamstrings. |
| 0:44.1 | She said that she had been practicing for a long period of time and that her hamstrings |
| 0:48.4 | since she began to practice, got significantly more flexible. |
| 0:53.8 | But they hadn't really changed in the last couple |
| 0:56.7 | of years, that they've been really stagnant and they hadn't increased their range. |
| 1:01.9 | And she asked if I had some thoughts about this, and of course I have some thoughts about this. |
| 1:07.1 | In the moment, I had several thoughts, and I think they were pretty good thoughts, but on reflection, I had even more thoughts. |
| 1:16.8 | And so I created a video about it. |
| 1:18.5 | And when I created a video about it, I thought, this still totally works as a podcast. |
| 1:24.1 | So that's what you're about to listen to. |
| 1:26.7 | If you watch my YouTube channel, you can watch, you can watch this conversation. |
| 1:33.6 | But if you are primarily an audio listener, I want you to have it because I think pretty much everything that I'm going to say on the video translates really well to audio. |
| 1:46.1 | And I know that this is going to help give you a more comprehensive framing of hamstrings. |
| 1:51.9 | And I'm going to say this a bunch in the upcoming piece. |
| 1:56.7 | Statically stretching your hamstrings is good. |
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