FT Questions....

[Altamir]

Thanks for letting me know what you're already up to!

With ankle cuffs, you can lie face down on a decline bench (knees lower than head) and hook yourself up to a low cable to do prone ham curls.

You can also use the seated calf machine to do Nordic Ham curls. (With the right cable machine, you can use an overhead cable to provide upward lift.) Load it up so that the knee pad can't move with this (at least 4 x 45lb) and drop the pad to the lowest position (it will go over the back of your ankles / lower calf, of course).

On some knee extension machines, you can do a unilateral ham curl by standing on a step bench or whatever gets you into position and slip your ankle in front of the pad. (Most KE machines are padded well enough at the edge of he seat that this isn't uncomfortable.)

Of course, with DB ham curls, you can lie face down on a decline bench (so you can still lift the DB off the ground with your feel) and this will overload at the knee knee-flexed position, which may help with your calf issue.

-S

Thanks for this as always Scott! I'll play around and see if I can't get a few of these to work. The recent addition of more stretch hamstring movements got them growing pretty well, just always need a little extra ammo encase I hit a wall.