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Get Huge Hamstrings! Don't Ignore Them. By: MuscleTech Let's be honest, any back pose isn't complete without having your hamstrings up to speed. Get some great ideas right here about building up your hamstrings. 1103 Words - Date Added: Aug 17, 2005

A Half-Dozen Great Ham and Quad Builders!
By: Ron Harris
There are so many underdeveloped lower bodies in the gyms of the world. Is it because good leg equipment is so hard to find? On the contrary, most facilities have rows of sturdy racks and machines with which to forge fantastic wheels. 3343 Words - Date Added: Sep 13, 2002

Anatomy And Exercises Main Page
By: Other Writer
Learn about the different muscles of the body and what exercises work them. Find out how to do them with our full guides! 141 Words - Date Added: Jan 05, 2001

Building Huge Legs: The True Sign Of A Bodybuilder
By: Jonathan Stehlik
Normal people just do not understand where we bodybuilders come from when we explain to them how much we enjoy standing out from the average and training to look like Greek statues. Learn why bodybuilders go to the extreme! 1279 Words - Date Added: Feb 03, 2003

Crazy Legs!
By: Bryan Locke
Within the next few months, I will have a complete set of articles, each one dedicated to a different muscle group. 1195 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Do Weak Hamstrings Destroy Your Physique?
By: Daniel Przyojski
The hamstrings can make or break you in a competition. Don't let it happen. Follow these great example exercises to build some very impressive Hamstrings. Learn more now! 2175 Words - Date Added: Dec 05, 2005

Double Your Results Using Varying Workouts: The Upper Legs!
By: Jon Huston
Perhaps the most difficult part about training legs is the low success rate for improving size and strength. Hopefully, this article will give you a few ideas to improve your overall size in the upper legs... 926 Words - Date Added: Apr 05, 2004

Episode 33: Milos Sarcev's Hamstring Training Tips.
By: The Fit Show
Milos Sarcev is back with another episode of The Fit Show. This week we will discuss various exercises and tips that will help you build big, strong hamstrings. 50 Words - Date Added: Jul 07, 2006

Eye-Popping Hams
By: Phano Som
If you want eye-popping hamstrings, then you better be prepared to work yourself into the ground. 1084 Words - Date Added: Mar 09, 2002

Get Huge Hamstrings! Don't Ignore Them.
By: MuscleTech
Let's be honest, any back pose isn't complete without having your hamstrings up to speed. Get some great ideas right here about building up your hamstrings. 1103 Words - Date Added: Aug 17, 2005

Getting Cut With Glass - Episode #6: Hamstrings Workout.
By: Getting Cut With Glass
Watch as IFBB Pro Trainer Charles Glass and IFBB World Masters Champion Bob Cicherillo train Adam Kirby (and train you!) on how to Get Cut With Glass! Today's lesson: isolated hamstrings training. 218 Words - Date Added: Jun 19, 2007

Hammer Your Hamstrings!
By: Matt Danielsson
How often do you START a training session with Hamstrings? Nonetheless, the hamstrings make up for a large part of our total leg volume. So, in conclusion, there's no excuse NOT to train hamstrings, whether YOU can see them or not! 864 Words - Date Added: Apr 17, 2003

Hamstring Development For Athletes!
By: Coach Davies
Hamstrings are typically worked improperly in most training environments as most gym settings utilize curling style motions in order to isolate them which neglect the insertion points of origin. Learn why and what exercises work for building your hamstrin 1059 Words - Date Added: Jun 01, 2004

Hamstring Paradigm!
By: Charles Poliquin
Understanding the functions of each of the hamstring muscles is the first step towards devising an effective hamstring workout. Learn why! 1695 Words - Date Added: Feb 20, 2004

Hamstring Training 101
By: David Knowles
To me, nothing looks worse onstage than when a guy or girl has great quads and shitty hamstrings. However, and believe me, full and developed hamstrings turn heads when it's time to turn around for the judges. 1308 Words - Date Added: May 07, 2002

Hamstrings: Exercises, Anatomy And Tips!
By: Other Writer
Find out what exercises work best for your Hams! The smarter you are, the bigger you'll get! 742 Words - Date Added: Jan 09, 2001

How to Build Huge Legs
By: Nathan Underhill
You see most of the guys in the gym walking around in their muscle shirts to show off their huge arms and then they are wearing wind pants or whatever to cover up their chicken legs. 582 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

ICE Quads
By: Big Cat
But you know what looks really stupid though? A guy with 18-inch guns, a barrel-shape chest, flaring lats and cannonball delts that suspends his body on toothpick legs. 3691 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Injuries - Hamstrung By Training Protocols!
By: Glen Danbury
The following are some of the key training faux pas that are increasing an athlete's risk of injuring their hamstrings. Learn why many coaches need to get their act together... 1498 Words - Date Added: Jan 31, 2006

Leg Training
By: Joe Corleone
Aside from looking good, well developed legs will help you in just about any sport since they are an integral source of power. 1048 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Legs - Quads and Hams
By: Aaron Ciak
Well lets talk about the most neglected part of the human body. THE LEGS. Now when I talk about legs here I am going to concentrate on the quadriceps and hamstrings. 861 Words - Date Added: Mar 08, 2002

Lower Body Training
By: Michael Pope
Believe it or not the lower body is the hardest part of the body to tone. So here I have written a few exercises that have proved to work for myself and others. But it's not just exercising that does the miracle, as always a well balanced diet is in need. 918 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Lunging
By: Sherry Gideons
The key to success with Freestyle is an emphasis for the legs and glutes. These exercises burn maximum calories, shape and define a greater percentage of your total mass and provide phenomenal cardiovascular benefits. 964 Words - Date Added: Feb 20, 2002

Meat Slab Legs
By: Brian Lane
Have you ever wanted to have those defined legs, with slabs of meat on them, looking like a photo in your science book? For example, legs like Tom Platz. 909 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Monster Legs
By: Big Red
Let's talk a little about one of the most neglected muscles by teen bodybuilders, the legs. No matter where you go, you'll see a lot of guys with well-developed upper bodies, but pigeon legs. 752 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

Monster Quads and Bulbous Hamstrings
By: Alton Hare
This is THE program to build leg mass AND superhuman strength at the same time. Given, it will not happen overnight, patience must be employed so that you do not hurt yourself. 1612 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

New Year's Resolution: Mass Building - Hamstrings (Part Seven)!
By: Richard Choueiri
Is your New Year's resolution aimed towards gaining overall mass, especially in the hamstrings? Learn and use the most effective methods by utilizing the following hamstring anatomy descriptions, exercises, and workout plan! 946 Words - Date Added: Dec 18, 2007

Power Rack Training Part II: The Squat and Deadlift
By: Curtis Dennis
Last time, I discussed how using the power rack for a better bench. I hope you all are using them well. This time, we will use the squat and deadlift. These are most likely the most feared exercises in the gym. Most people can't do either one or none of the exercises. 631 Words - Date Added: Jan 29, 2002

Problems When Working The Legs
By: Dorian
Ever hear someone say that, or even feel that way yourself? Of course if you say no, then you must not be working them hard enough. The problems associated with working the legs are many, but we will touch on only a few here. 1805 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Review of "The Kill"
By: Chris Meraz
On my way to the gym I started getting a bit nervous. Because, I have never tried a workout like this before and I knew that pain was in store for me, just not how much. 997 Words - Date Added: Mar 27, 2002

Scivation Peak Pyramid Training, Episode #5: Legs, Quads, And Hamstrings
By: Marc Lobliner
Try out the new adaptive Peak Pyramid Training program from Scivation's Marc Lobliner and Derek Charlebois - 5 sets of decreasing reps on 4 exercises per body part to accompany their Cut Diet. Part 5: Legs, Quads, and Hamstrings! Date Added: Jul 09, 2009

Squat Supplements
By: Curtis Schultz
Squats are the main diet for the powerlifter, Olympic lifter, football player, track & field competitor and every other competitive athlete. But there are many assistant exercises that deliver that extra for squat strength and quad development. 1565 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

The 10 Bodypart Target Training Series: Your Journey Into Creating Cured Hams!
By: Brad Borland
Although sometimes difficult to develop, once built, hamstrings can be a serious strength against other competitors. So let's look at the hamstring complex a little closer and get ready to beef up the backs of those legs! Read on. 2784 Words - Date Added: Aug 13, 2009

The Best Hamstring Building Tips And Workouts From The Forums!
By: Matt Weik
In this article you will learn about the hamstrings and how they function. You will also get some great hamstring building tips and workouts from your peers on the forum. Check them out and see if they would work for you! 96 Words - Date Added: Sep 01, 2006

The Bottom Of The X: Leg Training
By: Alton Hare
If you're just starting leg training, you'll have to start slow, though, doing less work then you feel capable of. But, each week take it a little farther, little closer to failure, until you're at a full-out hardcore session, bringing your body to total exhaustion and if you have the guts, beyond. 1344 Words - Date Added: Mar 07, 2002

The Brit Show With John Berry: Free Hamstring Workout Video!
By: John Berry
Watch 26-year-old British natural bodybuilder John Berry train week-by-week for his first bodybuilding competition. Download this week's free hamstring workout video to your computer for future reference, too! 206 Words - Date Added: Jul 17, 2006

The Kill Leg Workout
By: Mitch Hodge
A great leg workout is like 10 chest workouts as far as pain and focus are concerned. I know it sounds scary, and maybe right now you're thinking that sweat pants in the summer's not that bad after all. 1283 Words - Date Added: Mar 08, 2002

The Way I Turned My Bird Legs Into Tree Trunks
By: Todd Blue
When I first started training I really didn't think that I had any chance of developing big legs. My legs were only 19" and by looking at my dad's I really wondered if I had the genetics to develop monster sized quads. 893 Words - Date Added: Dec 21, 2001

Train Insane With Kane, Bonus Footage: Legs.
By: Kane Sumabat
A compilation of signature Kane techniques for training legs. Date Added: Oct 08, 2009

Training The Upper Legs!
By: Jon Huston
Fully developing the legs is perhaps one of the most difficult and most seldom accomplished feats among bodybuilders. Learn why and how to get huge Mike Platz legs! 829 Words - Date Added: Jan 23, 2003

Tree-Trunk Legs!
By: Joe Hagy
I'm going to talk about how to build a body part, which is probably the most ignored body part by most people who lift weights, which happen to be your legs. Legs are an incredible body part. 680 Words - Date Added: Nov 30, -0001

Tri-Phase Training, Part 3 - Volume: Leg Day, Day 3.
By: Marc Lobliner
In this third episode, watch and learn as Scivation's Marc Lobiner and Derek Charlesbois explain Tri-Phase Training, doing a Leg Day volume workout on Day Three! 421 Words - Date Added: Feb 21, 2008

Uncharted Leg Routines To Pack On SIZE.
By: Mike Mahler
As hard as exercises such as squats and deadlifts are, one or the other is necessary to increase leg size tremendously in the minimum amount of time. Here are two leg specialization programs to get you started. 1081 Words - Date Added: Mar 24, 2003

Want Good Legs? Work Your Hamstrings!
By: Babyboomers
In our continuing quest to help baby boomers redefine the process of aging, we are constantly on the lookout for the line that separates a youthful physique from one that is old. 1387 Words - Date Added: Apr 18, 2005

Weak Links!
By: Josh Henkin
It seems that most articles written today are trying to improve your bench press. However, if you want real success in the gym, whether it be increasing strength, losing bodyfat, or gaining muscle, you will also have to be proficient in other exercises like pull-ups, squats, deadlifts, and other complex movements. Here are some common weak points that people have and how to get them up to par. 1716 Words - Date Added: Dec 31, 2001

Wheels Of Steel: Exercises To Pack On Size!
By: Jamie Hale
Bench press worshipers and curl fanatics will cringe when they hear the words leg workout, but nothing looks more ridiculous than a guy whose arms are bigger than his legs. The legs are the foundation of the body. 666 Words - Date Added: Apr 18, 2003

Your Hams Suck!
By: Ron Harris
Like some of you, I have taken great pride in my quad development and strength. From the front, I always felt my legs could stand next to just about anybody's. 1004 Words - Date Added: Apr 05, 2002

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