I think the thing that everybody overlooks is what is the real function of the hamstrings?
When you’re running, when you.re on your feet, your hamstrings they don’t actually
bend your knees, they don’t flex your knees, so if you go and you do a whole bunch of hamstring
curls and that’s all you do for your hamstrings, you’re never gonna train them to be what
they need to be, when you get out and try to do anything.
Because that what happens with the gravity if all you do is just to succumb the gravity,
your knees will bend, so it’s not your hamstrings that are pulling you down or bending your
knee.
What they do more often is that they actually extend the hips.
Thy tie in with the gluts to extend your hips, and if you can get your gluts and your hamstrings
to work together, now you’ve got a good exercise, now you’ve got something that’s
gonna make them bulletproof.
Too often people will rely on their, their gluts to take over for, I mean, the hamstrings
to take over for weak gluts, that’s when they pull them , that’s when they get injuries
, that’s why they struggle to come back because they never really addressed the hamstrings
the way it needs to be.
So, without further ado guys, the legs, and here we go.
We’re gonna come in here and we’re gonna demonstrate that.
I don’t usually roll up my shorts up either; it’s for the purpose of show this exercise.
What we call this , like a glue hand raise and we’re gonna do it with a physio-ball
and just something under my knees and something to ankle my feet on to the bench with.
All I do is I come out here, try to let myself slowly, you know…release….and then as
I come up I’m pulling through the gluts to the hamstring.
You can see the hamstring is a bicep muscle too.
He’s got its own bicep, its got two parts and it will flex just like the bicep does.
I come back out again, as I pull up I’m not pushing on the ball, I’m actually pulling
through the hamstring all the way to the top.
Get down, slow, and all the way up to the hamstring at the top .You can see the calves
are getting involved as well…
here.. up… pull all the way to the top and again, working the hamstrings.
So, as you can see guys, you don’t want to focus on exercises that don’t do the
job the way that your body actually needs them to be.
You’ve gotta do things the way your body works when you get out there, try to play
sports, try to just get out and play some rules with the boys, or whatever it is that
you do, you want your body to be prepared .
This is what bulletproof is all about; this is what AthleanX is all about.
If you guys are using the wrong exercises, if you suffered a hamstring strain, you can’t
seem to get off that nagging hamstring strain from years ago you gotta start training to
bulletproof your body, you gotta start training with AthleaX.
Head to athleanx.com right now guys, get the system, get the 90 days program filled with
what I like to call bulletproof exercises, bulletproofing your body, getting those joints
to work the way they should, getting those muscles to fire the way they should, and all
get them to grow and burn fat at the same time, so to win win win.
Alright guys, I’ll see you back here next.
We’ll keep the series going, keep the comments coming guys, anything you wanna see leave
those comments down bellow, we wanna see.
I’ll bring it to you here as part of this bulletproof series.
Be back here again!.