r/flexibility

30 yo female here.

I’ve started actively working on my mobility/flexibility for the last few months along with weight training.

I’m still a beginner in a lot of poses but I feel this tightness, like a pinch, in the front of my hips with most of flexion poses (frog, deep squat, knee to chest, 90/90) basically anything that involves bringing my thigh close to abdomen. It’s not pain but more like a locked feeling. I can do knee to chest better if I rotate my leg out. I never had this problem and could easily do knee to chest a few years ago (before my 3yo was born) and I never really checked when this problem started really.
I also have APT so I’m not sure if this has something to do with the tightness?
Is there anything I can particularly do for this?

Hello everyone! I just want recommendations about what stretches/exercises I can do to improve my hamstring flexibility?

I am very flexible in my hips. I can do the pose in the first picture easily and feel comfortable in it too. I can even wrap my legs behind my head (nothing weird, I've just been able to do that since childhood, lol).

However, when it comes to trying to lean forward with my legs open, I am stiff as a rock. I can't even get close to touching my feet. I think if I fix that issue, I'll be overall a flexible person, and that's definitely the goal!

December 2024 (2nd pic) VS September 2026 (1st pic). Still trying to get my shoulders aligned with the wrists, progress is a bit slow because I don’t have enough time to stretch and I have scoliosis lol.

I’ve posted on this sub before but routine has stayed the same!
Routines: 1x a week/whenever I feel like it, I cycle through Dani Winks’ recorded workshops (Upper Back Clinic, Beginning dropbacks and Beginning contortion bridges). Highly recommend!

edit: if you pm me i will block you, some of yall are disgusting

Is it it a hamstring flexibility issue or should I push back my hip more.

This guy is from Tiktok, he is 26 yo and affirm that he is self taught, do you think it's possible? How much time it take to reach this level? He say that he have absolutely no background (gymnastics, ballet...) it's quite surprising because he got some clean lines.

I’ve been working with someone who had noticeably limited shoulder mobility.

Instead of giving him a list of stretches and asking him to repeat them every day, we spent the last 4 weeks working on the shoulder through different types of movement.
The goal wasn’t simply to “increase flexibility”.

We worked on:
active range of motion
controlled end ranges
scapular movement
strength in the available range
coordination and control
progressively exploring positions he previously couldn’t access comfortably

The interesting part is the before/after.
The first picture was taken before we started.
The second was taken after roughly one month of consistent practice.

The visual difference is pretty obvious, but what interests me more is that he didn’t just gain a new position — he became much more comfortable controlling it.

I’m sharing this because I think we sometimes reduce mobility to:
“Which stretch should I do?”
When the better question might be:
“What can I actually control with my body?”
I’m curious what people here think.

Do you generally approach mobility through stretching, strength, active range, movement practice — or a combination of all of them?