Touch Your Toes (Flexibility Hack)

Summary by Krater

This video teaches a routine to increase hamstring and calf flexibility to permanently touch your toes and beyond. It covers calf foam rolling, PNF stretching for calves, anterior versus posterior pelvic tilt, a plank variation, single-leg hip flexor stretches, and single-leg deadlifts.

From the video

Answers: How can I permanently touch my toes and increase my hamstring flexibility?

• hamstring flexibility
• calf flexibility
• pelvic tilt
• PNF stretching
• foam rolling
• single-leg deadlifts

Exercises

• toe touch · bodyweight
• calf foam rolling · foam roller · 10 tender areas, at least 2 minutes
• PNF calf stretch · steps · 1 min stretch, 10s isometric squeeze, 10s ankle pull, 1 min stretch
• front plank · bodyweight · 30-45s
• single-leg hip flexor stretch · bodyweight · 10 reps with 10s hold on 10th rep
• single-leg deadlift · bodyweight · 5 slow reps with pause at bottom

What it concludes

• Posterior pelvic tilt allows you to reach the floor without stretching your hamstrings.
• Foam rolling the calf downregulates the brain's perception of stretch to allow further movement.
• Performing both straight and bent leg single-leg deadlifts emphasizes hamstring lengthening at either the hip or the knee.