Hamstring
4 Exercises to Strengthen Weak Hamstrings
For some reason, hamstring training tends to get overlooked by many people. Many people believe that training quadriceps will allow them to run faster,...
4 Step-Up Exercise Variations That Build Explosive Strength
The Step Up When walking into most fitness centers or commercial clubs, you'll see many trainees performing several Lower Body exercises, including...
Take the 30-Day Back and Glute Challenge
Increasing strength in the posterior kinetic chain, muscles behind you including back and gluts, will help athletes propel the body forward for running,...
Prevent Repeated Muscle Strains and Tears
Every sports fan gets frustrated by that player on his/her favorite team who gets a muscle injury again and again. The cycle goes like this: muscle or...
Why Swimmers Shouldn’t Overtrain Their Quads
You have to propel through the water faster than the other swimmers, so you work harder on your quads and arms, right? Wrong. Swimmers love to train...
The 14 Best Posterior Chain Exercises. Period.
You may be wondering what exactly is the posterior chain? Anatomically speaking, posterior means back, so it includes all of the muscles from your upper...
Cardale Jones’s NFL Combine Ends Prematurely After He Pulls His Hamstring Running the 40-Yard Dash
Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones got off to a great start at the NFL Scouting Combine by posting an official 4.81-second 40-Yard Dash. For a guy who is 6-foot-5 and [...]
3 Tactics to Prevent Hamstring Pulls
Hamstring pulls are one of the most nagging injuries in sport. Millions of sport play hours have been lost due to hamstring injuries and issues, but the...
WATCH: This Australian Rugby Player’s Hamstring Strength Will Blow Your Mind
We've brought you a lot of videos of athletes performing feats we could only dream of achieving here at STACK, but this one, from Greater Western Sydney Giants player Dylan [...]
A Simple Way to Fix Your Tight Hamstrings
In my first article Flexibility Isn't the Problem with Your Hamstrings, we discussed the how neural tension, fascial restriction and poor core...