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. The hamstrings described: These are the muscles of the legs that originate just under the knees on the back side and they run from there through the back side of the thighs up to the ...

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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. Sometimes, however, training like this just isn’t enough. Sometimes, perhaps as a result of this tendency to limit leg stimulation to once per week, the legs lag to a point where they are halting overall physique development. When your legs reach this point, it’s time to change the traditional ...

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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). As the bodybuilder reaches the intermediate level, the need to stimulate each body part, every week, becomes known. It is usually at this time in which the bodybuilder first consistently trains hamstrings. Usually they are assigned four sets of 8 to 12 repetitions of hamstring curls, to be completed following ...

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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. Today’s judging standards, just like today’s physiques, have evolved. Today you see the genetic freaks as well as hardworking average bodybuilders, with bulging hamstrings, etched with detail. The muscle group used to be a bonus. Now, it is absolutely essential to have fairly developed hamstrings in order to place well at regional or national shows. The hamstrings, or leg biceps, are the muscle group that connects the glutes to the kneecap. They conduct the function of bringing the ...

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