If you're like a lot of iron warriors, muscle groups like biceps, back, and chest get all the love, leaving your legs a tad neglected. By now, you've probably seen enough memes to know that skipping ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nordic curls are a bit of a gymgoer’s party trick. As you lower the backside of your body backwards ...

The hamstrings are the large muscles located at the back of your legs, behind the thighs. They are recruited in almost all of our daily activities from walking to bending down to standing up from the ...

The hamstring muscles are often overlooked, yet they play a pivotal role in exercise performance and mobility. Though you’ve probably seen fitness gurus sharing their intense hamstring workouts, you ...

The semitendinosus is one of the four muscles in the hamstring muscle group. The others are the semimembranosus and the biceps femoris. The semitendinosus is the longest of these muscles, and it runs ...

You don't often hear anyone talking about how hard they hit their hamstrings at the gym. Leaving them out of your workout, though, is a big mistake, because they help you perform so many daily ...

Background The Nordic hamstring exercise is an effective program in reducing the hamstring injuries, which is one of the most common non-contact lower limb injuries, especially in sports requiring ...

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Background Soccer has high injury risk, especially for hamstring muscle injuries, and the Nordic hamstring exercise is a well-known intervention to prevent them. Objective To assess the professional ...