Hamstring Edge-of-Tweakiness
Practiced Forrest Intensive Day 1, 2 hr backbendy class at home today. Also went out & saw my volunteer peeps!
Had hoped to be out to take class, but was surprised yesterday by some emergent hamstring tweakiness at the upper attachment. Feels like a little strain/fraying almost right at the sitbones & is NOT a good thing. Had a strained upper attachment injury that lasted for, like, a year. Have been savoring the joy of healthy hamstrings & am completely unwilling to give that up. Hope is that if I take a day or two to heal — no forward bends! — it won’t turn from tweak to fullblown injury.
In Forrest, the basic rule for working with tweaky or injured hamstrings is 1) don’t stretch the affected hamstring AT ALL until painfree for a decent period of time 2) to help it heal, contract it. That means squeezing the area around the sitbones in my case, for example. Boats (also known as locust pose or salambhasana in other styles) are really good for hamstring injuries.
Tags: Daily Yoga Practice, Forrest Yoga