Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. For strong, powerful ...

Exercising your hamstrings is important for mobility (movement), athletic performance, and reducing injury risk. A glute bridge improves hip stability and alignment (proper position of the hips). This ...

Danny Saltos is a NASM-certified personal trainer and health coach, specializing in strength training and cardio. With 17 years of experience, Saltos has been training clients since 2006, both in ...

This exercise puts the hamstrings under high force while they are lengthening, triggering structural and functional changes that make them more resilient. Regular sprint training may help protect ...

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., ...

Objectives To compare the force and stretch demands experienced by the hamstrings during seven resistance training rehabilitation exercises and progressively increasing running speeds. Methods A cross ...

Oluseun Olufade, MD, is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at the Emory School of Medicine. Hamstring curls and Romanian deadlifts both strengthen the hamstrings, but they ...

So you've heard of strength training and cardio. But have you heard of training for "explosive power"? It's the ability to rapidly generate a lot of force, says Jessica Scott, an exercise physiology ...