Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. For strong, powerful ...

How to reduce hamstring injury risk While no strategy can completely eliminate risk, there is evidence that two approaches reduce hamstring injuries: sprinting and eccentric strength training.

Tight hamstrings slow you down and put you at risk for injury. These are the top 5 hamstring exercises every runner needs to build strength, improve stride, and stay pain-free. Both bilateral and ...

Background Including the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) as part of a training program reduces hamstring strain injury (HSI) risk. The lack of NHE implementation may be due to fear of muscle soreness ...

Adaptations in the hamstring muscle-tendon unit following a 9-week eccentric training program. The results demonstrate that while training allows muscle fibers to operate over significantly longer ...

Oluseun Olufade, MD, is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at the Emory School of Medicine. Hamstring curls and Romanian deadlifts both strengthen the hamstrings, but they ...

Hamstring injuries are some of the most prevalent in high-intensity sports like soccer, basketball, and football. Seeing your ...

Hamstring strain injuries represent a leading cause of time loss in sports characterised by high‐speed running, rapid changes of direction and kicking actions. These injuries arise when the muscle ...