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I always though of the hamstrings as the biceps of the legs. Aren't they called the femoris biceps?

To me, the biceps are a pulling set of muscles. I liken the leg muscles to the arm muscles: triceps and quads, push; biceps and leg biceps pull.

So how do squats and lunges work the hammies? It seems like all negative work. The only exercise that I see to work the hams in full rom would be leg curls.

I know that the big compounds work everything, but I just can't see it for the hammies....

Please edify me...

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I want to try to explain this...it makes sense in my head, but I cant put it to paper, well internet

The hamstring is actually three muscles: the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimenbranosus. They attach underneath the glutes to the pelvic bone and the knee, the tendons running through the back of the knee.


Biceps simply means "two heads". Hence "triceps" for three heads. So biceps femoris simply means the two headed muscles of the femora (I think it's plural, anyway) As far as it being a pulling muscle all muscles are pulling muscles. Muscles can't "push" after all. We may call pressing pushing but muscles only work by pulling on the bone.


So the two major actions of the hamstrings is hip flexion and knee flexion. So ANY hip dominant exercise works the hamstrings to some extent and anything involving knee flexion works it. But those exercise that involve BOTH work the hamstrings to the greatest extent. This makes squats, lunges, deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts, pullthroughs, glute-ham raises, goodmornings and similar things much better hamstring developers than just leg curls.

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Originally Posted by Charles Poliquin By their kinesiological nature, hamstrings have two major functions:

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

Stiff legged dead lifts are nice for the hams, so is weighted bent over horse

huh?