Best Hamstring Exercises & Workouts to build leg biceps

Best Hamstring exercises to develop Hamstring muscles including Leg curls, Straight-leg deadlifts, squats, lunges and Good mornings. Check the correct technique and workouts to blast your hamstring muscles.

Hamstrings are usually a neglected area. Many people even professionals do not train them hard. But these hamstring exercises done properly can make the difference.

Hamstring muscles are also called the Leg biceps.


The Best Hamstring Exercise
 

The primary exercises for developing the hamstrings is the Leg Curls, done either lying or single legged standing Leg curls.

Leg curls should be the foundation of your Hamstring muscle development. Its the best exercise to develop this area which also gets stimulation from squats and Lunges especially during the lower half range of motion.

So Leg curls hits these area directly and got to be included in every leg training workout.
 

Other Hamstring Exercises
 

Straight Leg deadlifts and Good mornings although are primarily lower back exercises also provide a good stretch to hamstring and glutes. These exercises can be performed after you have done with Leg curls.


Sample Hamstring Workouts


Hamstring Muscles respond to stretches and therefore a good hamstring stretch should be the first part of your Leg training. Check these Hamstring stretches to learn more.
 

Workout # 1

Leg Curls   4 sets of 10,8,6,4 reps


Workout # 2

Leg Curls 3 sets of 8,6,4 reps

Straight Leg deadlifts 3 sets of 8,6,4 reps.


Although I suggest that you do not perform any other body part along with Leg training as it is so demanding, combining lower back exercises along with legs is a good idea as most of the exercises involve both these large muscle groups.

More Leg Exercises

ExerciseGoals.com Recommends the Best Exercises ebook...

Just click here to find out 53 new innovative exercises
to eliminate boredom, plateaus from your workouts
and take your workouts to next level.



Back to Weight Training Tips Homepage.

Have A Great Leg Exercise or Workout?

Do you have a great story about this? Share it!

Enter Your Title

Tell Us Your Story! [ ? ]

Upload A Picture (optional) [ ? ]

Add Picture Caption (optional) 

Author Information (optional)

To receive credit as the author, enter your information below.

Your Name

(first or full name)

Your Location

(ex. City, State, Country)

Submit Your Contribution

Check box to agree to these submission guidelines.


(You can preview and edit on the next page)

What Other Visitors Have Said

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

DB Squat Jumps - Dumbbell Squats  Not rated yet
With two dumbbells at your side (with the weight you want), bend down like your doing a squats with a bar, but keep your back straight at all times.

Then ...