For strong, powerful legs, you need to work both your quads (on the front of your thighs), and hamstrings (on the back). For the quads, squats are a given. But what are the best exercises to hit the ...
Ah, hamstrings: the middle child of muscle groups. While they might not be the sexiest parts of our bodies, strong hamstrings play a vital role in our overall strength and stability. To learn more ...
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 ...
Your hamstrings might not be the most visible muscles, but they’re among the most important for overall fitness and injury prevention. These powerful muscles at the back of your thighs play a critical ...
Mirror, mirror, on the gym wall, when it comes to my leg muscles, am I really working them all? Odds are if you ask yourself that question come leg day, you might think the answer is a resounding Hell ...
Natalia Perez-Segnini is a NASM-certified personal trainer, a yoga instructor, a breathwork practitioner and a trauma-informed specialist. As a head coach at Tone House—a premier athletic-based ...
You pay attention to your glutes and quads, but how many hamstring exercises do you do? If you've never considered it or know you're not giving these muscles the attention they deserve, then this ...
THE LEG CURL is one of the best machines—and best methods, period—for building hamstring strength and size. There are two types of hamstring curl machines, and you're likely to find one or the other ...
Unlike a warmup, which increases blood flow to working muscles, an activation routine is a specific set of exercises designed to wake up muscles youll need for a given activity, explains Chloe ...