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Origineel gepost door Charles Poliquin
9. Best Reps for Hamstrings
For hamstring hypertrophy, do low reps in a leg curl machine and higher reps in stiff leg
deadlifts, Romanian dead, reverse hyper, and back extension. The reason why is
because when you’re working your hip extensors you’re also working your glutes and
erector spinae and those tend to be higher rep muscles. In other words, if you’re using
the leg curl machine you should be using eight reps or less. Someone with a higher
training age may only need three reps, but use a higher amount of sets, like 10 sets of 3.
10. Stretch Your Quads, Blast your Hams
Always stretch the quadriceps between hamstrings sets. Increasing the range of motion
of your quadriceps prior to a leg curl exercise will increase the amount of motor units
used in the hamstrings during the exercise and therefore the effectiveness of the
chosen exercise. Since the quadriceps is the antagonist muscle to the hamstrings, and
that stretching will allow it to relax, the force of the contraction in the hamstrings will
be much greater in the subsequent contraction.
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Opvallend stukje dat voor leg curl laag aantal herhalingen word aan bevolen. Geef zelf voorkeur aan wat meer reps. Als ik met 6 a 8 reps zou doen zit er ook niet genoeg gewicht op de machines.
Maar met die glute ham raise moet dat lage aantal reps wel lukken. In me eentje kwam ik nog geen 1x omhoog haha
