Hamstring Basics for Intermediate Bodybuilders Author: Dane Fletcher

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This is one of the many muscle tissues of the body many bodybuilders tend to notoriously ignore. It may be due to lack of emphasis on training them or their significance in the whole being of the whole body is virtually unknown. This write up is aimed at describing what the hamstrings really are, their functions and the workout exercises that can be employed to keep them strong and well toned. In the sport oriented media it is often to hear that this or that athlete is out with a hamstring injury. This is merely because under developed hamstrings are very susceptible to injuries especially during the leg exercises.

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Since the dawn of time, when caveman powerlifters were seeing who could pick up the biggest rock, people have always trained quadriceps with hamstrings. It just seems automatic. Get the legs done on the same day so you can devote the remainder of your week to training those body parts which actually matter, like arms, back, and chest. Besides, who could possibly train hamstrings when the quads were still sore? For most of bodybuilding’s brief recorded history, hamstring and quadriceps training has been lumped together.

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Most beginner bodybuilders have no clue what a hamstring is. It’s a muscle group they can’t see in most comfortable positions, which is typically only trained on one obvious device in the gym, the lying leg curl machine. In the ‘beginner’ phase, most bodybuilding training is limited to those plainly obvious exercises designed to add to the showpiece body parts (such as bench press for chest and dumbbell curls for biceps) or those with fun-looking cables or other parts (such as lat pulldowns or seated military press).

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In the early days of bodybuilding, hamstrings were almost ignored by bodybuilders. They did their leg curls and had secondary effects from squats and deadlifts. But for the most part, hamstrings weren’t very high on the priority list for bodybuilders. Athletes ignored them, as did judges. They were simply the back of the leg, nothing more.

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