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How to Reduce the Risk of Hamstring Injury
Sprinting is one of the best ways to do this, because it's high level lengthening. The hips are going through really big ranges of motion. We're getting dissociation between the thighs. There's nothing higher speed that we could possibly do. And so then you're desensitizing other protective mechanisms. So every step when you're sprinting, it's like there's a piano falling on your head. You have this excess tension in the body. It's only way to get rid of that is graded exposure,. gradually increasing speed over a big range of motion and eventually sprinting.