[Irish100m]

Irish100m on May 28, 2011 at 2:21 am #17559

And that it may be a factor in recurrent hamstring strains. So what is the best way to go about improving this for a sprinter? Of course I do abs work like crunchies, planks, twist movements with med balls etc, but wondering if that is actually going to help support me when sprinting?

I lift with free weights, so that must count as some sort of core stability training as the stabilizer muscles have to engage to stop you from wobbling when squating, deadlifting etc … i also do hurdle drills like walkovers and other variations

But what other stuff should i be doing to improve core strength/stability?

[Eric Broadbent]

Eric Broadbent on May 28, 2011 at 2:42 am #108297

It sounds like are doing a lot of the right stuff. I don’t think there is going to be one or two things that if you add are going to make a drastic change considering you are hitting a lot of the main core strengthening exercises. Some things you may be doing but not sure if they were included in the etc. portion you mentioned…hanging abs from pullup bar, planks w/ leg lifts from various positions, isometric core exercises, olympic lifts(assume you do these). The question might be what kind of hamstring exercises are you doing or what is the root of your hamstring strains…too much volume, tight turn during indoor season? Just throwing other possibilities out there.

[taake]

taake on May 28, 2011 at 3:19 am #108299

I personally believe that many hamstrings strains comes from some postural imbalances in the hips. Because for some doing all the right things, strength, flexibility work, dynamic warmup, will still not 100% prevent a new hamstring strain. I dont know how to deal with postural imbalanses? chiropracktor?

Another option might be to not run 100% in pratice. But holding abit back. I dont know how much your speed training will suffer from this, but the chance of hamstring strain in training will get greatly reduced.

[Irish100m]

Irish100m on May 28, 2011 at 7:29 am #108301

Yes eric i do do olympic lifts such as the clean

The hamstring exercises i do are back squats and deadlifts, and occasionally stiff/straight leg deadlifts but rarely do them

taake – i have only ever fully torn my hamstring in a race, were i have to go 100%, and a couple times felt tightness after training