hamstring

The front and back leg quadriceps contract, extending the knees and stretching the lower region of the hamstrings.

While ACL injuries can be treated with surgery and physical therapy, a way to prevent them is to build up the strength of your hamstrings.

Keep spine lengthened. Do not allow low back to shift or twist. If hamstrings are too tight, place a towel under buttocks.

You'll also work on your flexibility, as the gliding motion stretches your hamstrings, calves and lower-back muscles.

As in almost all standing poses, lift the skin on the backs of your thighs and hamstrings toward your buttocks.

The dynamic mechanisms consist of the muscle-tendon units that cross the joint, in particular, the quadriceps and hamstrings.

To this end, work on keeping your hamstrings loose, as tightness can increase fatigue and enhance the perception of fatigue.

You use many muscles while jumping rope, including your calves, quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteus maximus, and forearms.

Tot squats (hamstrings): Standing with feet shoulder-width apart cradle baby with both arms. Keeping a straight back repeat deep knee bends.

Keep your stride short, so you're not putting stress on your hamstrings and your shin muscles.

Too much forward lean reduces the efficiency of the legs and can place strain on the hamstrings.

If you are anything like me and have tight hamstrings you can either come away from the wall a little or use a chair instead.

The femurs are held in neutral alignment with knees extended, elongating the hamstrings and low back.

Steps work wonders for lifting and tightening the glutealmuscles, quadriceps, calves, and hamstrings.

Bend forward slightly at the hip, keeping your back straight, until you feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings.

For runners, extremely tight hamstrings and joints have been found in some studies (but not all studies) to contribute to overuse injuries.

Weight training bulids up muscle definition, including the hamstrings , calf, upper body and neck muscles.

This pose creates an intense stretch of the hamstrings in the straight leg.

Tones abdominal organs; open chest, side ribs, and hamstrings; cool the brain.

Half of them stretched their quadriceps, hamstrings, and calf muscles before running, while the other half ran without stretching first.

If my hamstrings weren't in pieces and my head wasn't on backwards, I'd kick you in the knee.

The hamstrings are three long muscles that cover the back of the thighs.

Why did God tell Israelites to cut off horse's hamstrings and destroy enemies chariots?

Finish with 5 minutes of cooldown stretching of the calf muscles, hamstrings, and quads.

"It's difficult to assess with hamstrings but we hope we have him back quickly, " Ferguson said.

Inset: illustrating the deep external rotators of the hip and the hamstrings orgin.

I have to work much more on the hamstrings with exercises in the gym and on sand.

This exercise works on both your spine and hamstrings.

But somewhat tight hamstrings, as the Nebraska Wesleyan study showed, can make you more economical.

Reebok says this increases muscle activity in the glutes by 28 percent and in the calves and hamstrings by 11 percent.

Hold for five seconds, relax and repeat 10 to 12 times. Firms up hamstrings and core.

In general, warm up by focusing first on large muscle groups, such as your hamstrings.

l Standing poses that open the hamstrings such as triangle, half-moon, parsvottanasana are excellent preparations for forward bends.

The results of isokinetic testing of quadriceps and hamstrings following bone-patellar tendon-bone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

A Preliminary Study on Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Using Hamstrings Tendons Knot with Bone Lock-bolt under Arthroscopy

The influence of velocity on isokinetic eccentric torque of hamstrings and quadriceps

If hamstrings feel too tight, bend the knee and place a bolster under the thigh;