Nick Fitness Question # 42 – How do we modify the risk factors of a hamstring tear?

What’s up guys, it’s your main man Nick here with another answer to another question.

‘So Nick, we’ve got the risk factors for a hamstring tear these sound like something that we can modify, so how do we go about modifying them?’. Well first we need to appreciate that strengthening it isn’t enough and simply just taking the time off and letting it heel isn’t enough. Why is that not enough? because we’ll still only be strong at the links that we were prior to the in the injury. So while we may get back the lost function and while the pain may dissipate we’re not necessarily addressing the cause per se. What do we need to do, we need to train our hamstrings. We need to acquire strength in our hamstrings at those long links; Romanian dead lifts, Nordic hamstring curl, drop lunges, the owl protocol, these are all things that we should be incorporating into our training either in isolation or as part of a warm-up.

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