If like me, you love to lace up your trail running shoes or hiking boots and hit the trail regularly, you might find that your hamstrings are feeling a little tight these days – especially if you’re not great about stretching regularly.
Running and hiking place load your hamstrings – a collective term used for the three muscles that run down the back of your thigh from your sitting bones to the back of your knee – and that’s not a bad thing. Adding load to muscles helps make them stronger, and strong leg muscles assist with balance as well as your ability to perform everyday functions like standing. Until it doesn’t.
