How to Foam Roll Your Hamstrings
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The next part of the foam roller series is known after the hamstrings to the back of the of the leg. Hamstring is usually harder to get to is because it takes so much more pressure for you to go onto it, what you can do is you can sit up and then use your other leg to support you, or you can just hang out put as much weight as you can. I’m only going after one side of my hamstring. Therefore I can isolate it more and put a little more compression force. I can also use the edge of the foam roll to actually get into a little more of a pinpoint if you want to. As I roll through, I want to try to keep my leg straight because it allows the hamstring to be lengthened. Now the hamstring is mostly on the inside of the back of the leg and on the outside of the back leg. So towing in and towing out was going to be big strategy to get after these muscle groups against on it that I can laterally shift. I can rotate my leg back and forth. It’s not just about forward and backwards motion and it’s certainly not about rapid motion, it’s about slow motion, allow the water be pushed out, pushed back in. The hamstring goes all the way to the high hip to the very back of the glutes. So you can really pinpoint again by using the edge of the of the farmer to dig in you see the edge of former kind of tilting upwards because I’m really digging on that side. Find that tight spot and roll all the way down nice and slow. It’s all up to you.
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