Years ago when I was a kickboxing instructor I had a member come to me and ask for some stretches. He was in his early 50’s and told me he was having upper back pain/tightness.
At the time I was big into yoga. So I whipped up a couple poses and stretches on the spot to help stretch his upper back.
I saw him a few weeks later and he wasn’t in kickboxing class with his wife. He was in the weight room doing pulling exercises. It stumped me because he always took the Saturday morning class.
It wasn’t until later that I realized. He went to see a professional. That professional told him he didn’t need to stretch his tight upper back. He actually needed to strengthen it.
I felt ashamed I had told him the wrong things but I didn’t know any better.
He was having a neurological phenomenon. Meaning his brain was sensing that his upper back was over stretched.
The brain then tells us the upper back is tight.
Most of us feel a tight muscle and want to stretch it, but in most cases, the tightest muscles are actually ones that are being stretched too much.
Are your hamstrings “tight”? Have you been stretching them for years and not gotten that tightness to go away?
See what I mean?
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