IF YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO REALLY TARGET YOUR HAMSTRINGS AND WORK THOSE TROUBLE AREAS, THEN YOU WANT TO READ THIS ARTICLE.

There’s plenty of day-to-day activities that indirectly train your legs – specifically your quads. 

While you might be thinking that’s great news, most of us would rather have additional work on our butts than extra muscle on our thighs.

So how do we overcome years of lower body work with daily stimulus and make sure our glutes and hamstrings are getting the same attention?

The answer’s pretty simple: train your hamstrings and glutes slightly more frequently than you train quads.

If you workout all 3 muscles once a week, make your second lower body session hamstring and glute focused.

In today’s article, we’re going to share 10 exercises to get your hammies working and fat burning.

If you’re ready to really get the most out of your hamstrings and glutes, and tighten up the back of those thighs, keep reading:

Squats are staple to kick off most lower body workouts, just like deadlifts tend to rev up your back day and OHP for your shoulder day; but what about when you’re just trying to target your hamstrings? 

Don’t worry; this triple threat workout utilizing barbells,smith-machines, dumbbells, and cables is guaranteed to get your muscles working and body sweating.

If you are looking to sweat even more during this workout,  check out what our athletes are using to enhance their training.

COMPOUND EXERCISES

Barbell Hipthrusts

Smith Machine Deadlifts

ACCESSORY EXERCISES

Stability Ball Hamstring Curls

Cable Kickbacks – Hamstring Focused

4 sets of 15 reps Example: 5lbs for 15 reps

Lying Hamstring Curls

BURN OUT SETS

Glute Ham Raises

THE BOTTOM LINE