When it comes to functional training rarely do people have any kind of leg curl come to mind. I’ll be the first to admit that I fell into the camp of rarely ever doing active knee flexion exercises. Instead, I would squat, hinge, lunge, bridge, etc. and let my hamstrings get worked from that. While that’s all fine and dandy, its tends to neglect the hamstrings to a capacity. In particular, one of your hamstrings – the short head of the biceps femoris – gets greatly ignored by

Want to gain muscle – take some lessons from babies http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/,scalefit_600_noupscale/5707ffab2e00002d00950cb8.jpeg What’s harder, gaining weight or losing it? Well it depends on which one you need to do! Some people are better at one than the other, therefore needing to do the other. For those of you trying to gain weight, I suggest taking a lesson from babies. Babies are the kings of gaining. It might sound silly to say it, but its true. The growth

Hip extension is the most talked about expression of force production. In contrast, hip flexion is one of the most ignored and underappreciated movements. If you look at the majority of training programs, we see a huge bias towards hip extension focused movements. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with this, but what needs to be appreciated is that without good hip flexion, we won’t get good hip extension. If you cannot get into hip flexion, you won’t be able to generate