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This came out nothing like I'd pictured in my head, and it's not even in focus. I could not for the life of me get my camera to focus with my remote last night (it kept doing that annoying zoom-zoom noise) so I bent over to clean the remote and fried my hamstring on a bare lightbulb (aka getto lighting) behind me. MF! So I gave it the bird and went to bed with a ginormous blister on the back of my leg. Joy of my life!
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To start
1. Sit with legs extended. Place theraband around feet and hold the theraband close to the feet. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.
2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.
3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.
4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.
5. Repeat two more sets.
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Booty Burner Cable Squats
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I love occasionally including this exercise in my glute days. Take a look at my form, the POSITION and ANGLE is important in order to target the glutes.
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Find a weight that is challenging, but manageable. If you go too heavy on these you will feel it in your lower back, so test out a few weights before doing a full set
Have a wide stance with your feet slightly pointing out
Keep your chest and head up during the entire set. The weight will force you to fall a bit forward, so use the strength of your glutes to counteract this.
Sit in the heels on your feet
Squeeze your glutes to stand up
I like to pump out as many of these as I can until I fail, like in the video , and can’t squat anymore
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Tag someone you want to try this with and let me know how it goes!
On Mondays we train legs
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Leg days are seriously my favorite remember ladies, don’t be afraid to lift heavy. Heavy weights cause the body to change and reshape, so challenge yourself here are 4 out of 6 exercises I did (a few are kept secret for clients only )
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1⃣ Standing Hamstring Curls- 3×12-15 at 30 lbs
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Focus on not moving your lower back and only flexing your hamstrings to move the weight. 30 lbs sounds like a joke, but let me to you if you actually do this movement correctly, 30 lbs creates enough tension to stimulate the muscle.
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2⃣ Hack Squat-3×12-15 at 180 lbs
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This video is sped up A LOT for entertainment purposes, but make sure you descend slowly- I take a full 4 seconds to drop down. Go down to at least parallel and then flex your quads, hamstrings, and glutes to stand up. Do not lock out your knees.
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3⃣ Quad Extensions- 3×10-15 at 80-100 lbs
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On these I am trying to hit complete failure. I go till I literally can not flex my quads anymore
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4⃣ Standing Calf Raises- 3×12-15 at 60lbs
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By now my legs are beat so I just focused on getting a good stretch and hard flex. Make sure you keep your knees softly locked out, quads engaged, and work the full range of motion- even if that means making the weight light!
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1. Sit with legs extended. Reach hands forward with neutral spine. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.
2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.
3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.
4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.
5. Repeat two more sets.
Thompson Track, Te Aroha
It started as a couple of hour ride up from Te Aroha and turned into a 2 day bush bash in mud and rain.
The bikes were a Gas Gas 700SM, Honda CRF300 Adventure and my Montesa 4Ride.
The rough road up to the summit was pretty easy for all of us. Big rocks and potholes on a clay bed but no real problem. That took about 25 minutes.
Then I found a track going down the other side and we decided to follow it.
Within 500 metres was the first slip; that should have warned us off but no, we soldiered on...........and on and on a on! For hours we battled bogs, bush slips and trees.
Finally, we decided we were not going to make Katikati on the other side. The bogs were too big and the GasGas and Honda too heavy.
We turned around and started back up but the rain set in and made it harder.
We decided to leave the two heavy bikes behind and come back the next day for them. Between the three of us, we rode and hauled the little Montesa 4Ride 260cc trials based bike to the top and I rode on down to get help. On the way down, I lost the front wheel on a slippery rock, fell and tore my hamstring. It was a lot of pain but I got up and rode on.
I found a couple in town with a double cab ute who agreed to come with me to the base of the trail so we could drive the other two back to town; they finally walked out around midnight!
The next day we went back to get the bikes left behind.
I waited at the bottom with my torn hammy and acted as the emergency system just in case. The other two took my Montesa back up to cut 2-3 hours off their walk then walked into the bush to rescue the other bikes with a winch, folding spade and tree saw.
2 expert hard enduro racers had contacted me offering help so I said yes please!
They turned up abpout 2.30pm and rode in to help. Then half an hour later, 2 more riders turned up to help.
The 2nd two riders didn't go far enough to find the others and came back. They'd seen my Montesa just over the top but that was all.
By 6pm I was getting worried and ready to call emergency services (the boys had a satelite rescue device so I knew they may have set that off).
They hadn't and, just before I called emergency; they all came back down some 5 hours after entering. Our 2-3 hour adventure ride had turned into a 2 day balls out test of skill, endurance and planning. On the way up, we didn't just ride, we stopped and planned our way through every obstacle.
Nobody was hurt at all until I fell off on the way down in the rain and we all had wet weather gear and plenty of spring water.
Staying in the bush for the night would have been cold but not a life or death issue.
What a ride! What an experience a what a great bunch of people Kiwis are to drop everything, drive hundreds of km with bikes on the back to help us!
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The theraband teaches how much the limbs have to be active for the Pilates roll down.
1. Sit with legs extended. Place theraband around the back and hold the theraband with the hands. Bend knees if hamstrings are tight.
2. Exhale, hollow abdominals and sequence the spine on to the floor.
3. Inhale and lengthen the head away from the feet.
4. Exhale, hollow and roll back up.
Repeat two more sets.
07-29-1975, Mesa, AZ; Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Shea Matthew Hillenbrand is a professional baseball player who currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League. Hillenbrand played 72 games in 1996 for the Low-A Lowell Spinners in the New York - Penn League. In 1997, he was promoted to the Sarasota Red Sox of the Florida State League, and was promoted again after 57 games, finishing the season with 64 games with the Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League. Despite being drafted as a shortstop, he played at first base and third base his first two years in the minors. In 1998, still with Michigan, he was converted to play catcher and responded with his best season in the minors, with a .349 batting average and 19 home runs. This earned him a promotion in 1999 to AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League. However, a leg injury restricted him to only 69 games. The 2000 season saw Hillenbrand back at Trenton, now back to playing first base and third base as the injury prevented him from catching. An average season at age 25 did not bode well for his chances as a prospect, but he parlayed an invitation to spring training with the Red Sox in 2001 into a spot on the big-league team for opening day. Hillenbrand played 139 games for the Sox in his rookie season, mostly at third base, but a .263 batting average failed to hide his failure to hit with power and get on base adequately (he had one of the lowest walks-to-plate appearances rates in the MLB). In 2001 he had the lowest range factor among all AL third basemen (2.46). However, he retained his spot on the roster for 2002, and responded with a much better season, hitting 20 home runs with a .330 on base percentage and a .459 slugging average. His play earned him the starting third baseman spot in the All-Star Game. He tied Robin Ventura for the Major League lead in errors by a third baseman, however, with 23. Nevertheless, Hillenbrand entered 2003 being the subject of trade rumors. The Red Sox had signed free agent Bill Mueller, another third baseman who would win the batting title that year, and many believed that Hillenbrand's lack of strike zone judgment would not be compatible with the on base percentage priorities of new Sox general manager Theo Epstein. With Mueller hitting around .380 and playing a solid third base, Hillenbrand became expendable and was sent to Arizona for pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim on May 29. Hillenbrand was involved in a feud with Epstein following the incident. He finished the season with a combined .280 batting average and career-highs in RBI (97) and home runs (20), including a three-homer game with the Diamondbacks in month of July. Bill Mueller went on to win the AL Batting Title. In 2004, Hillenbrand hit a career-high .310 with 15 home runs and 80 RBI over 148 games. At the same time, he shared the Major League lead in errors for a first baseman, with 13. He was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the end of the 2004 season. In 2005, his first year with the Blue Jays, Hillenbrand hit .291 with 18 home runs and 82 RBI over 152 games, while splitting time between 1B, 3B, and DH. He also led the league in hit by pitches (HBP) in 2005 with 22. Hillenbrand was traded to the San Francisco Giants during the 2006 season. Hillenbrand signed a one year contract with the Angels on December 26, 2006. On June 27, 2007, he was designated for assignment a day after being quoted as saying, "If I'm not going to play here, give me enough respect to trade me or get rid of me.” On July 9, 2007, having been replaced by the emergence of Reggie Willits and first baseman Casey Kotchman, Hillenbrand was waived by the Angels. He signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on July 27, 2007. He spent 12 days with the Padres' Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers, before being released on August 8, 2007. He hit .147 during that span. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers two days later on August 10, 2007. He was called up to the Major Leagues three days later on August 13. He hit his only home run with the Dodgers on August 29 off Luis Ayala of the Washington Nationals. In 2008, Hillenbrand went unsigned by any major league organization, only being contacted by the San Francisco Giants during the off season. On July 2, 2008, the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League announced that they had signed Hillenbrand to be their starting third baseman. Hillenbrand played in 36 games for the Revolution hitting .340 with two home runs and 25 RBIs before his season was ended by a hamstring injury. He did not play between 2009 and 2011, but came back for the 2012 season, playing for the Bridgeport Bluefish. His MLB-Stats: 2001-2003 Boston Red Sox; 2003-2004 Arizona; 2005-2006 Toronto Blue Jays; 2006 San Francisco Giants; 2007 LA Angels, LA Dodgers; career stats: 7 seasons (2001-2007): G:943 / AB:3570 / R:463 / H:1014 / HR:108 / RBI:490 / BA:0.284. Final Game, September 20, 2007. All Star 2002 and 2004.
Sugarcane Bow Pose or known as Ardha Chandra Chapasana is a strong standing and balancing pose. The possibilities are endless with this posture for opening the hamstrings, hip flexors, chest... Simpler variations are Extended Side Angle Pose and Half Moon.
Diamond League athletics at the Birmingham Grand Prix, Alexander Stadium. Marvin Bracy (USA) won the 100m final in 9.93 (PB). Adam Gemili (GBR) was 2nd in a PB 9.97 (making him one of few Brits to have achieved a time under 10 seconds). 3rd was Mike Rodgers (USA) in 9.97 (sic). Richard Kilty and CJ Ujah (both GBR) finished 5th and 6th.
Gemili blamed pyrotechnics for his fall, which resulted in a hamstring injury that prevented his participation in the World Championships in Beijing.
Kidding. However, I do miss yoga!!!! I found an amazing group of people doing Acro Yoga in the park today and am going to the class of the women that I met tomorrow. Very excited to get back to my practice.
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07-29-1975, Mesa, AZ; Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 10th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Shea Matthew Hillenbrand is a professional baseball player who currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League. Hillenbrand played 72 games in 1996 for the Low-A Lowell Spinners in the New York - Penn League. In 1997, he was promoted to the Sarasota Red Sox of the Florida State League, and was promoted again after 57 games, finishing the season with 64 games with the Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League. Despite being drafted as a shortstop, he played at first base and third base his first two years in the minors. In 1998, still with Michigan, he was converted to play catcher and responded with his best season in the minors, with a .349 batting average and 19 home runs. This earned him a promotion in 1999 to AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League. However, a leg injury restricted him to only 69 games. The 2000 season saw Hillenbrand back at Trenton, now back to playing first base and third base as the injury prevented him from catching. An average season at age 25 did not bode well for his chances as a prospect, but he parlayed an invitation to spring training with the Red Sox in 2001 into a spot on the big-league team for opening day. Hillenbrand played 139 games for the Sox in his rookie season, mostly at third base, but a .263 batting average failed to hide his failure to hit with power and get on base adequately (he had one of the lowest walks-to-plate appearances rates in the MLB). In 2001 he had the lowest range factor among all AL third basemen (2.46). However, he retained his spot on the roster for 2002, and responded with a much better season, hitting 20 home runs with a .330 on base percentage and a .459 slugging average. His play earned him the starting third baseman spot in the All-Star Game. He tied Robin Ventura for the Major League lead in errors by a third baseman, however, with 23. Nevertheless, Hillenbrand entered 2003 being the subject of trade rumors. The Red Sox had signed free agent Bill Mueller, another third baseman who would win the batting title that year, and many believed that Hillenbrand's lack of strike zone judgment would not be compatible with the on base percentage priorities of new Sox general manager Theo Epstein. With Mueller hitting around .380 and playing a solid third base, Hillenbrand became expendable and was sent to Arizona for pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim on May 29. Hillenbrand was involved in a feud with Epstein following the incident. He finished the season with a combined .280 batting average and career-highs in RBI (97) and home runs (20), including a three-homer game with the Diamondbacks in month of July. Bill Mueller went on to win the AL Batting Title. In 2004, Hillenbrand hit a career-high .310 with 15 home runs and 80 RBI over 148 games. At the same time, he shared the Major League lead in errors for a first baseman, with 13. He was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the end of the 2004 season. In 2005, his first year with the Blue Jays, Hillenbrand hit .291 with 18 home runs and 82 RBI over 152 games, while splitting time between 1B, 3B, and DH. He also led the league in hit by pitches (HBP) in 2005 with 22. Hillenbrand was traded to the San Francisco Giants during the 2006 season. Hillenbrand signed a one year contract with the Angels on December 26, 2006. On June 27, 2007, he was designated for assignment a day after being quoted as saying, "If I'm not going to play here, give me enough respect to trade me or get rid of me.” On July 9, 2007, having been replaced by the emergence of Reggie Willits and first baseman Casey Kotchman, Hillenbrand was waived by the Angels. He signed a minor league contract with the San Diego Padres on July 27, 2007. He spent 12 days with the Padres' Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers, before being released on August 8, 2007. He hit .147 during that span. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers two days later on August 10, 2007. He was called up to the Major Leagues three days later on August 13. He hit his only home run with the Dodgers on August 29 off Luis Ayala of the Washington Nationals. In 2008, Hillenbrand went unsigned by any major league organization, only being contacted by the San Francisco Giants during the off season. On July 2, 2008, the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League announced that they had signed Hillenbrand to be their starting third baseman. Hillenbrand played in 36 games for the Revolution hitting .340 with two home runs and 25 RBIs before his season was ended by a hamstring injury. He did not play between 2009 and 2011, but came back for the 2012 season, playing for the Bridgeport Bluefish. His MLB-Stats: 2001-2003 Boston Red Sox; 2003-2004 Arizona; 2005-2006 Toronto Blue Jays; 2006 San Francisco Giants; 2007 LA Angels, LA Dodgers; career stats: 7 seasons (2001-2007): G:943 / AB:3570 / R:463 / H:1014 / HR:108 / RBI:490 / BA:0.284. Final Game, September 20, 2007. All Star 2002 and 2004.
Hamstring app (biceps femoris tendon, distal):
Positioning: standing, bent at the hips stretching the hamstrings.
Strip #1 (yellow)- take a precut 10” I strip and keep it in I strip form. Anchor the base of the tape just below the knee joint on the posterior lateral (back outside) of the leg. In the position above, pull 50% stretch and apply up the back outer tendon (biceps femoris) and up the hamstring. Apply the last inch with zero tension.
Strip #2 (pink)- Take a precut 10” I strip and make it into a Y strip. If you have the old cotton version, it is already precut to do this. If you have the new synthetic PRO version, you will have to cut it with scissors to just above the logo. Apply the base of this one just below the base of your first strip. Take a tails (either one first), and with 50% tension lay the tails up the biceps femoris on either side of the tenson as shown. Zero tension on the last inch of each tail.
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Years in service: 18
Injury/disability: In a 2010 helicopter crash in Afghanistan, he sustained a broken ankle, back, collarbone, hip, jaw, sternum, punctured lung and left upper hamstring, burns over 20 percent of his body, and traumatic brain injury.
Sport/sports: Shooting, track and field, wheelchair basketball and sitting volleyball
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The North Carolina Tar Heels, a power five program out of the Atlantic Coast Conference, dealt Old Dominion its first home defeat since November 2015. But in the loss, ODU gained a new starting quarterback.
True freshman Steven Williams, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Washington, D.C., replaced starting quarterback Jordan Hoy and backup QB Blake LaRussa in the 53-23 loss.
"When you don't have a first down in the first quarter and you have no energy on the sideline because the players feel it, you have to make the move," ODU head football coach Bobby Wilder explained. "I didn't go into this game thinking [Williams] would play."
Seeing his first action, the 17 year old Williams completed 9-of-20 passes for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw an interception and lost a fumble. Williams added 34 rushing yards on seven attempts.
"We haven't developed an identity on offense," Wilder noted. "Stevie Williams today gave us an identity. Steven Williams is the quarterback of the Old Dominion football team moving forward."
"They just said 'let's go," Williams explained of how he learned he was about to receive his first college playing time. "My teammates were all behind me. I just had to go do my job and we'll be fine."
Old Dominion outscored North Carolina (1-2), 16-14, in the second half, after trailing the Tar Heels, 39-7, at the half.
Prior to the game, ODU learned All-Conference USA running back Ray Lawry, the program's all-time leading rusher, has a torn hamstring. Head coach Bobby Wilder reveals the injury could keep Lawry sidelined for the remainder of the season.
The Ergon seat was terrible. With each pedal stroke, the wings pressed into my hamstrings. It has been replaced with a Selle Italia SLR Kit Carbonio 2 saddle. The temporary red tires have been swapped out for some black Hutchinsons.
The Ergon seat was terrible. With each pedal stroke, the wings pressed into my hamstrings. It has been replaced with a Selle Italia SLR Kit Carbonio 2 saddle. The temporary red tires have been swapped out for some black Hutchinsons.
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Adho mukha svanasana
Also Known As: Downward Dog
Targets: Hamstring and calf stretch, mild inversion
Level: Beginner
Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) is the poster pose for yoga. The reason it has become the best-known asana is that it's so important in contemporary practice. It may be the first pose you learn as you begin a yoga practice.
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Running burns calories, builds cardio stamina, muscular strength in your lower body, and can even be a relocating reflection. Nevertheless, running on its own can bring about tightness in the hamstrings, hip flexors, quadriceps, and also feet.Balance your running routine with some yoga exercise...
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For roughly 6 months of the year between June and November Zakouma National Park is almost entirely inundated with floodwaters at this time elephants would often disperse into the surrounding area of what is now the Salamat Faunal Reserve. During this time Arab horsemen from the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan would come to hunt the elephants as they had done for perhaps several hundred years. Traditionally a group of up to 20 horsemen armed with lances would charge a herd aiming to separate out one of the elephants. A single horseman would then ride in front of this elephant to draw its attention and get it to pursue him allowing the other men to ride in and spear it from behind with their lances. They would aim for the elephant’s hamstrings in its hind legs which if severed would bring the animal down and ensure it could not get up again. Huge numbers of elephants were killed this way and in response the surviving herds in the region have learned that at the first sign of horsemen their best defence is bunch up into tight groups to ensure that no individual can be separated out.
Today this is no defence the horsemen are Janjaweed militiamen and members of the Sudanese armed forces and they come not with the lances used by their ancestors but with AK47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. This habit of bunching up into a single large herd has meant that the poachers can easily kill 50-60 elephants in a single attack by simply machine gunning the terrified animals as they try to escape. In 2005 an aerial count found 3,885 elephants in Zakouma and the surrounding area in under a decade the population was reduced to just 430 and had stopped breeding due to the constant stress. Since African Parks took over Zakouma the poaching has been almost entirely stopped, there hasn’t been a single poaching incident in 5 years, as soon as the elephants started to feel secure, they began to breed again, at the last count in 2021 the population has reached 636.
All of this poaching led to Zakouma’s elephants forming a single large dysfunctional herd that included adult bulls, that would ordinarily have been pushed out of the herd, perhaps because of how much the population has grown, the big herd does seem to have started to split into several large herds rather than one single one. Although they are now safe, elephants have long memories, they remain extremely nervous and are difficult to find and approach. Your best chance of seeing them is to wait for them to come to the Salamat River to drink, having established from park HQ where they are first, so that you know where best to wait. This is not fool proof, we tried this and missed them, finally chancing upon this big herd in the south of the park, they didn’t remain in the open for long and quickly ran back into the bush, even though we were a long distance away.
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