Hamstring muscle group training is important for athletes. The hamstrings are important for running, jumping, most sport skills, ACL injury prevention, sprint injury prevention, and the rehabilitation of both ACL and sprinting...
We've known that hamstring injuries happen when athletes sprint for a long time now. There have been a lot of hypothesis about why this is. The strength and conditioning field has looked...
There was a time when warming up meant running two laps around the track and then stretching. Nowadays most programs take a very different approach to warming up. Warming up needs to...
Hamstring injuries are the bane of athletes that sprint. The thinking is that there is a need to strengthen the hamstrings eccentrically to prepare them for the point in the sprinting cycle...
Resisted sprints: running uphill We’ve had a few posts discussing different ways to do resisted sprinting. This approach to sprinting could be thought of as applying strength training to sprinting. The idea...