Stand with your feet directly underneath your hips and place your hands lightly behind your head with elbows wide. Slowly ...

Reclining Big Toe Pose can be a warm-up leg stretch or a cool-down pose—either way, it will stretch your hamstrings.

The three large muscles at the back of your thigh are known as the hamstrings. They join the hip joint to the knee joint. You’ll use your hamstrings a lot in any activity that requires you to bend ...

A number of Premier League players – including Arsenal’s Kai Havertz and Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson (above) – have suffered hamstring injuries in recent weeks. With the help of Matt Konopinski, ...

Hamstring exercises include the deadlift, hamstring curl, Bulgarian split squat. To avoid injury, warm up your hamstrings before working out with mobility exercises like toe touches. Recovery is key ...

Background Previous studies have suggested that hamstring strain injury leads to activation and strength deficits in hamstring muscles. However, the effects of previous hamstring strain injury on the ...

If you do workouts that engage your lower body, odds are your hamstrings are going to feel tight and sore at some point. To relieve that annoying (and borderline painful!) tension, you should stretch ...

Gokhan Yagiz received funding from the Republic of Türkiye, Ministry of National Education. Julian Owen receives funding from Bangor University and World Rugby. With the men’s Rugby World Cup in ...