Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT Exercising your hamstrings is important for mobility (movement), athletic performance ...

The Benefits of Training Your Hamstrings This comes down to what the muscle actually does for you. The hamstrings are a rare and unique lower-body muscle group that actually acts at two joints.

Hamstring exercises include the deadlift, hamstring curl, Bulgarian split squat. To avoid injury, warm up your hamstrings before working out with mobility exercises like toe touches. Recovery is key ...

Ah, hamstrings: the middle-child of muscles. While they might not be the sexiest parts of our bodies, the hamstrings are undoubtedly useful in both sports and everyday activities (like sitting, ...

Many great exercises work the hamstrings. But if you spend time training one muscle group, you want to do only the best exercises, right? A recent study conducted at the University of Memphis looked ...

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 ...

Theres leg training. And then theres hamstring training. And your hamstrings are often forgotten. It happens to the best of us. You can easily go into the gym and crush a leg workout filled with ...