hamstring training

[BIGSylvester]

I don’t see many posts about training the hamstrings which are the muscle on the upper back part of your leg. Everyone seems to think deadlifts are the best thing to train them but I read a study that showed that leg curls are better. The problem is my gym does not have any leg curl machines, what do you guys think about this study?

 

[the_alcatraz]

Deadlifts are the best no matter who says what, do them. Forget the study

 

[stevesmi]

well i have massive hamstrings and i never isolate them. the truth is lunges, squats and deadlifts done properly work them out plenty

 

[BodyMonster34]

bro you try squatting deep and then engaging?

 

[SteveMobsterG]

I don’t see many posts about training the hamstrings which are the muscle on the upper back part of your leg. Everyone seems to think deadlifts are the best thing to train them but I read a study that showed that leg curls are better. The problem is my gym does not have any leg curl machines, what do you guys think about this study?

Strangely enough quite a few of us knew this without needing to be told.

Nothing about the study. Nor that it has any connection whatsoever as to whether or not your gym has such a machine. That said I find that unlikely. Every gym I've ever used in the last 41 years has one.

 

[ballin2504]

Every gym I’ve ever been in has a leg curl machine.

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

Even if you are lacking equipment, you can lay down and use a dumbbell between your feet to do hamstring curls.