Are your hamstrings actually tight?
Mobility: a free gain of intelligent weight training, an elusive dream in yoga.
Any athlete and coach will tell you mobility matters. But what the best athletes and coaches will tell you is that mobility is a free gain and development from intelligently programmed weight training.
For the love of God, stop stretching!
I don’t mean to burst bubbles, but your flexibility doesn’t mean much. I can tie the stereotypical 3 sessions-a-week yogi into a pretzel but I wouldn’t trust him to run a 5 kilometre mini marathon without getting a stitch. Nor to deadlift more than his bag of ethically sourced almond flour. Yogis have always seemed to me like the wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube man from Family Guy. Legs, limbs and Lululemons flying about without any intelligent sense of motor control, joint stability or above all, strength.