If you're walking, standing up from the couch or bending down to pick something up, you are using your hamstrings. The muscles, which run down the back of the leg from the hip to the knee, are ...

Older guys need flexible and strong hamstrings as much as gymnasts and other elite athletes, whether the last time you thought about the muscles was last week or the last time your first-round fantasy ...

Your hamstrings might not be the most visible muscles, but they’re among the most important for overall fitness and injury prevention. These powerful muscles at the back of your thighs play a critical ...

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For strong, powerful legs, you need to work both your quads (on the front of your thighs), and hamstrings (on the back). For the quads, squats are a given. But what are the best exercises to hit the ...

Don’t let the muscles in the front of your legs steal the spotlight. If you’re looking to work some muscles in your all-important posterior chain, consider trying some stretchy hamstring resistance ...

“Hamstrings provide strength and power when accelerating or running uphill,” Alison Staples, coach at &Running in Howard County, Maryland, tells Runner’s World. “The hamstrings cross and act upon two ...

How many of you include hamstring exercises in your leg workouts? And bum exercises? I’ll hedge my bets a lot more of you answered yes to the latter. While neither are anterior chain muscles (i.e., ...

Milo Bryant is a performance coach as well as an experienced journalist. He’s also in his 50s—and his book Unstoppable After 40 gives you the roadmap to do more than merely remain active as you ...