Your favorite hamstring exercises

[FinnGasolin]

Hey boys

As the headline says, what is your fav. hammie exercise?

I truly love the romanian deadlift - but I'm starting to look for substitutes

 

[MrChewiebitums]

romanian and standing leg curl..... however i definitely have some sort of genetic advantage because even if i fart.. my hamstrings seem to grow so when i`m feeling smashed from quads i`ll just throw in some standing LC

 

[Anabolicus]

DB SLDL

 

[Cork]

Glute hamm raises. I've really seen a big boost in my strength and size since starting them.

 

[co05]

GHRs or Goodmornings are nice

 

[El Freako]

Heavy deadlifts, deep squats and GMs, accept no substitutes.

 

[Skeptic]

Goodmornings, and, although I've only recently started doing them... GHR's.

 

[curtisymoo]

DB SLDL

my favorite for mass, by far
especially on an elevated platform

 

[mvsf1]

Squats and deadlifts.

 

[Xiva]

GHR or RDL

 

[Xiva]

Guys that are saying deadlift and squat/deep squat.

You simply cant call power squat or deadlift a ham exercise, i know that both exercises activates hamstrings, but there are so many better alternativs, which will do alot better.

 

[DanishBB]

Squats, lunges & hack squat.

 

[Hypocrisy86]

standing one legged curls

 

[Natzo]

DB SLDL

x2.

 

[Johnny5]

I don't want to sound like a lightweight here, but what's DB SLDL? And while I'm at it, every time I do Romanian Deadlifts, I pretty much only feel my lower back doing the work, not my hamstrings. I might be doing a stiff-legged deadlift, but I don't know how to target my hamstrings more. And tips?

 

[El Freako]

Guys that are saying deadlift and squat/deep squat.

You simply cant call power squat or deadlift a ham exercise, i know that both exercises activates hamstrings, but there are so many better alternativs, which will do alot better.

Name one exercise which will allow you to put more load on your hams? Sure if you need to be doing ham specific movements due to am imbalance I might suggest GMs, GHRs or 2 deadlift variation aswell but you can't beat squats and deads for all round leg development.

 

[Natzo]

I don't want to sound like a lightweight here, but what's DB SLDL? stiff-Legged DeadLift,

but with dumbells.

 

[Xiva]

Name one exercise which will allow you to put more load on your hams? Sure if you need to be doing ham specific movements due to am imbalance I might suggest GMs, GHRs or 2 deadlift variation aswell but you can't beat squats and deads for all round leg development.

We dont talk all around leg development now. We talk hamstrings. So.

But yes, Squats is the best exercise of all to put on size "all around" the leg, that's for sure.

 

[Jaspar]

I'd probably say a hybrid between SL/romanian DL on box as the number one exercise for me, since I can pretty much load it the most, of all the exercises hitting hamstrings - even more than powersquat.

Second exercise would be GHR and then legcurls. I haven't really got a fourth one.

Why is it, that some of you prefer DB SL over regular SL DL? Are you doing it unilateral?

 

[El Freako]

We dont talk all around leg development now. We talk hamstrings. So.

But yes, Squats is the best exercise of all to put on size "all around" the leg, that's for sure.

But squats and deads will still work your hams better than the others through sheer loading. That is unless there was an imbalance problem to start with, in which case more specific movements might be necessary until the imbalance is corrected.

A lot of people do think of squats as a more quad specific movement but in there cases it is mainly because the aren't squatting properly. Once you're squatting deep enough the ham and glute activisation should be quite obvious. How else are you getting yourself out of the hole? Magic?

And deads should need no explanation at all...