In the opening week of training camp, at least eight Chicago Bears were waylaid by hamstring injuries. Two weeks later, by mid-August, almost all of the injured players had bounded back to the ...

Unfortunately, hamstring strains are both common and painful. They strike athletes of all sorts – including runners, skaters, and football, soccer, and basketball players. But what is a hamstring? It ...

Not all gym machines are created equal. In fact, some of them do more harm than good—including the hamstring curl machine. In many cases, machines lock your body into fixed positions that don’t ...

Hamstring The hamstring muscle group tends to be a runner's weakest link. Imbalances in muscle strength among the hamstring muscles or between the hamstrings and the quadriceps and hip flexors can ...

The leg press exercise and machine are such good inventions that it would be foolish to use them only in their most conventional forms. The basic leg press is done with the feet hip-width apart, ...

A hamstring tear injury is a rip in the hamstring muscles. It happens when the hamstrings are overstretched or overloaded with too much weight. Depending on the injury, the hamstring can tear ...