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Posts tagged hamstring
7 Best Hamstring Exercises
Aug 26th
Hamstrings are the forgotten muscle. When we think of legs, most of us will head straight to quad work. This is great and totally necessary, but without balance in your training, you are not going to go very far. It is extremely important to include a range of hamstring exercises into your training, and you often need to isolate them relatively. There are very few people out there that actually have adequate hamstring development, and there is usually a lot of work needed.
Why You Need To Work Your Hamstrings
Hamstring Rehabilitation Manual
Jul 19th
My father has recently written an e-book on hamstring rehabilitation. Although this won’t interest a lot of my readers I wanted to get it out there, both for you and for him. There isn’t really a better place to launch it, and if there are some athletes or sports coaches out there, or people with recurring hamstring injuries, then this should be of interest for you.
Eccentric: Hammer Your Hamstrings
Mar 31st
Hamstrings can become the forgotten muscle. They aren’t the sexiest muscle and in a lot of programs they don’t get enough devotion. So, how do we get more bang for our buck and hit those annoying hamstrings harder? With eccentric exercises of course.
What Is Eccentric Exercise?
There are two types of muscle contractions.
- Concentric contraction occurs when the muscle is shortening.
- Eccentric contraction occurs when the muscle is lengthening.
The best way to picture this is doing a bicep curl. When you bring the weight up, you are performing a concentric contraction, when you lower the weight; your biceps are working eccentrically to lower the weight with control.
