EP.50 - Preventing and Rehabilitating Hamstring Strains

Over the last 12 months, Nordics have become a key criterion and point of progression for most of our athletes.

In today’s episode, we go deep on why we love them,  - why they are better than a deadlift and RDL for brute eccentric hamstring strength  - the mistake we made regarding Corelfits  - why the Nordic isn’t quite perfect - why sport doesn’t serve the hamstring well  - how eccentrics affect the collagen and titan in your muscles  - and how you can start adding them in without being sore for a week

Some resources: This video from David Opar should provide a great summary of all things hamstrings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48MAhno35Lg

David Opar and the hamstring injury research group have done a heap of work on the Nordic and its effect on injury risk (this link will take you to a heap of their academic papers which you can read for free) https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=david+opar+hamstring&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXoPXP6rjSAhXDEpQKHefTBAkQgQMIFzAA

Also the Nordbord website: https://valdperformance.com/

Fascicle length: http://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(12)00580-4/abstract

More on Titin (not Titan): http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/16/2825.long

And collagen content of muscles: http://jap.physiology.org/content/97/1/197.long (a small study but Jacob seems to be onto something)