You didn't have the options of: "upper shin" or "knee" .... so I went with "middle of the shin" as the closest estimate . . . . . . . and look at that . . . . . . . I'm the only one there!!

Yep!! I've got all the flexibility of a 2x4. 200 year old oak trees can bend and flex easier than my hamstrings!! My yoga instructor told me she had never seen anyone with such tight hamstrings! I did a flexibility test for my Kinesiology class, and had the lowest rating in the entire class ... anything over a "41" rating was considered excellent, and most of the class rated somewhere between 30 and 40 ... I rated 16!!

When I took yoga classes, my flexibility did gradually improve (after 2 years of yoga) and I got to the point where I could reach my lower shin ... but I haven't done yoga in getting on for 2 years now, and I'm right back to where I started.


One of my classmates in the yoga class told me that she used to be as inflexible as me, but now can reach way beyond her toes. I asked her how she did it ... was it many years of yoga? A regular stretching plan? And here's what she told me ...

She went waterskiing one day, and everything was going great. Then all of a sudden something happened and one ski shot off one direction, and the other ski shot off the other direction ... and she ended up doing the splits (for the first time in her life). She had torn both hamstrings very badly, was in extreme pain, and was hospitalized a while. But when she healed ... she had flexibility in her hamstrings!
She recommended I avoid that method.