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Training Hamstrings - Articles
Marathon Training and Hamstrings
by
marathonmom
Posted
Fri 07 Sep 2012 8:47am
Not here yet, but a reminder not to get to this point!
Not the week I had hoped for, but I am dealing and surviving. I made it through day 1 & 2 of classes and now prepare for next week that becomes even busier. My trainer is back and had a great workout planned yesterday that I needed to make him change due to my hamstrin ...
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Top Speed Training Exercise: Hamstring Training
by
Mark D.
Posted
Mon 14 Jun 2010 6:56pm
Improve your speed by improving your hamstring strength and conditioning. Every fast athlete has powerful hamstring muscles. You need to strengthen your hamstring muscles all year to avoid injuries.
The glute ham raise is an advanced strength exercise for the hamstrings. There are few injuries as bothersome and harder to recover from t ...
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Strength Training Part 2: Hamstrings
by
sfroadwarrior
Posted
Thu 16 Feb 2012 7:10am
Last week I wrote a post about the importance and relative easiness of strength work for distance runners. Not crazy circuit training or hours in the gym to get totally ripped; just simple exercises to keep our most important muscle groups balanced and free of overuse injuries.
In this & future posts, I want to share some of the strength ...
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Training Tips #3 - Inverted Hamstring Stretch
by
Rono (MindNMuscleFitness)
Posted
Tue 07 Oct 2008 7:18pm
Beginning Position
Standing on one leg
Movement
Bend over at waist and kick opposite heel to sky
Keep hips elevated while lifting right knee to chest
Hold stretch for 10 seconds, then repeat for 5 reps
Switch to opposite leg
Safety Points
Keep back flat
Keep abs drawn in or braced
Maintain straight line f ...
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Before You Stretch Your Hamstrings, Try This First
by
Doug K.
Posted
Tue 21 Jul 2009 10:10pm
People who have back pain or people who have had back pain and recovered with insufficient training, will have tight (inflexible) hamstring muscles. You can bet on it. The muscles may actually feel tight as well. Novice practitioners labor under the illusion that the tightness must be corrected in order for the pain to resolve. I know. I though ...
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Five Resistance Training Myths in the Running World
by
Eric C.
Posted
Wed 26 Mar 2008 11:49am
To some, resistance training is the Rodney Dangerfield of the running community; it gets no respect. To others, it’s like Tom Cruise; runners think it might be useful, but it just doesn’t make any sense to them. And then, there are those to whom resistance training is like Abraham Lincoln; it’s freed them from being slaves to ineffective programmin ...
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Interval Training: HIIT or Miss
by
Eric C.
Posted
Sun 08 Mar 2009 3:01pm
Today, we’ve got a special guest post from Michael Boyle of StrengthCoach.com. This is some fantastic stuff - definitely one of the most comprehensive articles I’ve seen on the topic of interval training
Interval Training- HIIT or Miss?
I think every fat loss article we read espouses the value of interval training for fat loss. In fact the ...
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Five Resistance Training Myths in the Running World
by
Eric C.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:30pm
1 Comment
To some, resistance training is the Rodney Dangerfield of the running community; it gets no respect. To others, it’s like Tom Cruise; runners think it might be useful, but it just doesn’t make any sense to them. And then, there are those to whom resistance training is like Abraham Lincoln; it’s freed them from being slaves to ineffective pro ...
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The Beat Goes On (Hamstring Injury)
by
Kristy W.
Posted
Tue 07 Aug 2012 7:00am
Drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain. La dee da de dee, Le dee da dee dah
I have an injury. This may not be news to you (I have been writing about it for a long time) but I am coming to terms with it. Maybe you noticed my Monday Morning Motivation was about injuries? It helps me to put it all into perspective.
After my ch ...
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Hamstrings On Monday
by
Kristy W.
Posted
Thu 08 Dec 2011 7:00am
Hams…Bulging, full, round hamstrings. It’s one of my goals.
From Wikipedia:
The word ham originally referred to the fat and muscle behind the knee. String refers to tendons, and thus, the hamstrings are the string-like tendons felt on either side of the back of the knee. Another commonly accepted origin is that legs ...
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