High Intensity Strength Training for your “Hamstrings” can prevent or reduce injury
If you ever see an athlete fall to ground during a baseball or football game holding the back of his thigh screaming in pain, you can be fairly certain he has injured his “hamstring”. I have seen all degrees of injuries to the hamstring usually described as “a pulled hamstring”; “a torn hamstring”; “a strained hamstring” or “a cramp in the hamstring”. No matter what the injury is, “pulled, strained, cramped, or the worst, “torn”, you can be sure it is extremely painful and the injured athlete will be on the side line for a while. The average convalescing period for a hamstring injury is a whopping two weeks! This group of muscles is a common source of injury and chronic pain in athletes. The injury will usually always involve the biceps femoris and can be classified into 3 grades:…
