Articles for tag: Hamstring Injuries, Lifting Weights, Muscle Strength

Karla News

Muscle Tears from Lifting Weights

A torn muscle can be a painful injury that proves difficult to heal. A muscle tear occurs when muscle fibers are ripped apart and bleed. The presence of blood in the muscle compartment can cause scar tissue to form. Muscle tears are sudden injuries. Any muscle in the body can tear at any time. Muscle ...

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Hamstring Injuries: Causes and Prevention

Hamstring injuries can interfere with training for fitness, sports or physique competition: a hamstring injury disrupts running, and running is a heavily favored fat-burning activity for those wanting to slash body fat. The most common cause of hamstring injuries is actually running, particularly sprinting, though overly aggressive stretching can also injure the hamstrings. I’m a ...

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Dealing with Hamstring Injuries

As many nagging sports injuries as I’ve had over the past 34 years, you would think that, at some point, I would tire of getting hurt and cut back on the sorts or just give them up all together. Well, since I am not ever going to stop participating in athletic events – although I ...

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Quadriceps and Hamstring Injuries

Given the work and demand places on the human leg, it’s surprising that muscle injuries to the hamstring and quadriceps, the muscle groups in the front and back of the upper leg, don’t happen more frequently. While these two sets of muscles function inversely with each other, the tremendous power and energy exacted on them ...