This week's workout comes from Bev Francis of East Coast Mecca/Powerhouse Gym. She demonstrates a machine at the gym that works your hamstring muscles.

Hamstring rehabilitation exercises can aid recovery and help prevent future injuries. Rehabilitation protocols typically call for a combination of stretching and strengthening movements. While severe ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nordic curls are a bit of a gymgoer’s party trick. As you lower the backside of your body backwards ...

If you’ve ever chanced a gym training session during peak hours you’ll know it’s pot luck whether you can get your hands on the equipment you’re intending to use or not. There will almost certainly be ...

The semitendinosus is one of the four muscles in the hamstring muscle group. The others are the semimembranosus and the biceps femoris. The semitendinosus is the longest of these muscles, and it runs ...

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., ...

What is a Smith machine? The Smith machine is a piece of fitness equipment commonly found in gyms that features a barbell fixed to a squat rack, limiting movement to one single plane. “Because the bar ...

When the weather isn’t ideal, it’s good to have a workout ready that was designed specifically to improve your running performance—that you can do indoors. This glutes and hamstrings workout provides ...

However, a pulled hamstring doesn't mean that it's necessary to stop doing cardio training entirely, as there are alternative ways to train cardio that either don't involve the legs or minimize the ...