Ive have been playing sports almost all of my life, and even with that i feel like im always tight like my back and stuff and when i go to stretch all i have to do is like flatten my legs and not even reach and i can really feel it stretching, my mom has had a histroy of back problems but thats because she fell off of a horse at 16 so i dont think its hereitary(sp) so basically i would like to know why my legs are always really tight, is it my back or what?
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How come?
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Well it depends on what part of your leg you're talking about. I mean i dont care how much you play sports you always have to stretch. There are just those days where your muscles are tight and they need extra stretching. If you want to be limber than u need to stretch every day not just when you are going to play a game or whatever. but remember everything is connected. so problems in the legs can lead to problems in the back.....or lead back to....i dont know what i said....u get the point. So i would stretch everyday and they should losin up. but if you had a bad back chances are you would know it.
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you always have to stretchI'm not sure how to reply to the original poster, but the stretching discussion was had a couple of months ago: there's scant evidence to support the idea of stretching for normal people doing normal exercise. In fact, in at least one study, people who stretched had a sligtly elevated risk of injury.Why do we stretch? Because that's how we've always done it. (BTW, I never stretch before I work out, but I do give my muscles a chance to warm up.)
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Yah when i went to therapy for my hamstring( i had micro mini tears in it) they said my hamstring could be tight because of my back and he did this one thing and he cracked my back a certain way and it would losen up my hamstrings and BTW i was talking about my hamstrings being tight
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If a therapist fixed you up, then you should try seeing a chiropractor and tell them exactly what your problem is. I go to my chiropractor at least once a week and now I'm going even more since marching band is starting back up. They truly do work wonders.
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Yah i might do that... thanks guys