You can do a hamstring curl with or without gym equipment. Some variations involve standing, sitting on a chair, or lying face-down on the floor. These muscles function together to bend your knee and ...

Oluseun Olufade, MD, is an Orthopedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopedics at the Emory School of Medicine. Hamstring curls and Romanian deadlifts both strengthen the hamstrings, but they ...

The hamstrings do most of the work when you flex your knee, yet many lifters train them less than the quads. Leg curls close that gap because they isolate knee flexion and force the muscles at the ...