Which Part of Your Body Is Least Flexible?

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Which Part of Your Body Is Least Flexible?

January 29, 2009

Since I teach yoga, people are always asking me which poses they can do to stretch the least-flexible parts of their bodies. Swimmers complain of tight shoulders, runners continuously have tight hamstrings, and people who sit all day experience have tight hips. Stretching your muscles every day, throughout the day, can definitely increase your range of flexibility. So which part of your body could use the extra attention?

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3 years 37 weeks

i am 14 and can put both of my legs behind my head at the same time and can do the lotus with 0 effort, as well as walk on my knees in said position (though it hurts my knees a lot) However, i can barely bend my hips forward/backward at all without bending my knees, and hence, cannot touch my toes while standing. No idea why

WildFire14 4 years 14 weeks

To be totally honest, it's my hamstrings... but legs in general.. I used to dance (belly and indian) and I fell off a cliff in April 2008 which had me out of commission for almost 7 months.. I didn't break anything, but just had severe joint and muscle damage as I dislocated my hip, shoulder, knees and elbow... and sprained my ankle. To make the damage worse, I didn't realise what happened to my joints, so I made the hike back out of the mountain, and only the following morning the complications hit me. T'was fun though. Falling 24ft and not dying or breaking anything, is pretty damn cool!

sparklestar 4 years 15 weeks

MY QUADS!! I get knee pain periodically when I don't stretch enough. :(

sparklestar 4 years 15 weeks

MY QUADS!!I get knee pain periodically when I don't stretch enough. :(

renny 4 years 15 weeks

Hamstrings are the worst with my hips at a close second!

JenDeck711 4 years 15 weeks

My shoulders. I'm a runner, and I've always been really flexible in my legs and hips. But no matter how much yoga I do, I can't get my shoulders to loosen up!

emalove 4 years 15 weeks

Not sure...I've always been pretty flexible.

Teagan 4 years 15 weeks

My hamstrings are tight, as well as my hips. I am a student athlete (runner) so I guess I have the hip tightens from sitting all day and the hamstring tightness from running!

GlowingMoon 4 years 15 weeks

I'm actually pretty flexible because I dance. However, I would love to increase my overall range. It would make for more dramatic moves and poses.

wackdoodle 4 years 15 weeks

My back. Even when I did gymnastic as a little girl I could never touch my toes or do a good back bend. I've worked and worked on it, had a massage therapist work on it and a physical therapists try to help me loosen it up. Those muscles will not length and the thought is because they may already be stretched as far as they'll go due to having an extra vertebrae.

wackdoodle 4 years 15 weeks

My back. Even when I did gymnastic as a little girl I could never touch my toes or do a good back bend. I've worked and worked on it, had a massage therapist work on it and a physical therapists try to help me loosen it up.Those muscles will not length and the thought is because they may already be stretched as far as they'll go due to having an extra vertebrae.

pixelhaze 4 years 15 weeks

Spiderlove -I'm the exact opposite! I also did gymnastics as a kid (a looooooong time ago) and I can't do the splits but my backbends are great, and I can still put my feet on my head.

starangel82 4 years 15 weeks

Shoulders and neck. I want to scream just stretching in the mornings, much less working out. That's probably a stress thing though. :(

Spectra 4 years 15 weeks

Definitely my hamstrings! I need to do more yoga to loosen those muscles up, I guess.

Spiderlove 4 years 15 weeks

My back. I did gymnastics as a kid, and while I can still do splits and anything that requires me going forward or sideways (like cartwheels, walkovers, etc), I can't do *anything* that requires me going backwards... it's weird!

tatsauce 4 years 15 weeks

my left inner thigh is also so tight, it's kind of strange

jesssa 4 years 15 weeks

DEFINITELY my hips!!!

jesssa 4 years 15 weeks

DEFINITELY my hips!!!

moonischasingme1 4 years 15 weeks

I think my back because I am not one of those people who can sit with the legs spread open on the floor and then bend forward...it just doesn't happen!

Francoisehardly 4 years 15 weeks

I'm not really sure. After losing more weight I'm more flexible in general.

Stacey Cakes 4 years 15 weeks

Definitely my back, probably due to the surgery where the doctors removed a disc and added some bone from my hip into my lower back.

sunshinepointe 4 years 15 weeks

I'm actually hypermobile so I don't have much problem being bendy. I will say that as I get older though my hamstrings are usually the first thing to tighten up.

littlekaren 4 years 15 weeks

I almost put my hamstrings, but I think I'm equally tight in all muscle groups! (I'm moderately flexible actually) Weightlifting and not enough stretching time keeps me somewhat tight.

aimeeb 4 years 15 weeks

My hips, I think.

aimeeb 4 years 15 weeks

My hips, I think.

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