Showing posts with label leg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leg. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Hamstring Exercises and Stretches that work for me

                I have an injury and I've learned how to address it, on my own. Every time I'd sit for a long time I'd experience this dull pain in my hamstring and my upper back thigh of my right leg. 


           Two long runs ago, after 8 miles, I felt as if I ran any longer my hamstring would snap, and that is a scary feeling. I ended up walking the rest of that run. Then I remembered that this past year I had similar pain and it went away after I started stretching again. So, instead of running on one weekday runs I chose to go to the gym instead and after doing "arms" I did the hamstring machine:

and the squat machine to address this issue. 


As far as stretches, I love doing the hamstring stretch using a counter. 


and.....I also love the bend-over stretch using the same counter. 

 
I am very sure there are hundreds that address these issues but these are MY go-tos when this pain resurfaces.