Hamstring-SMR

HamstringsFoam rollerBeginnerIsolation
Hamstring-SMR — start position
Start
Hamstring-SMR — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryHamstrings

How to do it

  1. 01

    In a seated position, extend your legs over a foam roll so that it is position on the back of the upper legs. Place your hands to the side or behind you to help support your weight. This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Using your hands, lift your hips off of the floor and shift your weight on the foam roll to one leg. Relax the hamstrings of the leg you are stretching.

  3. 03

    Roll over the foam from below the hip to above the back of the knee, pausing at points of tension for 10-30 seconds. Repeat for the other leg.

In the app

Hamstring-SMR appears when you own a foam roller and the day's window has room for it. Its minutes come from Rule 2 (Sessions are built to fit, never guaranteed, graded product): the window sets how long it runs, never the other way round.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a foam roller

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With bodyweight

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