TRX Hamstring Curl

How to do it

1. Lie on your back with heels in the suspension trainer cradles, knees bent at 90 degrees.
2. Lift your hips off the floor, creating a straight line from knees to shoulders.
3. Extend your legs forward, maintaining hip elevation and core tension.
4. Pull your heels back towards your glutes, contracting your hamstrings forcefully.
5. Control the movement, avoiding any drop in hip height throughout the set.

Muscles it trains

Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.

How it compares

Compared with the Seated Leg Curl, it loads Glutes 35 points higher, Hamstrings 5 points lower, Calves 5 points higher. It needs Suspension trainer where the other uses Machines. Compared with the TRX Lunge, it loads Quads 80 points lower, Hamstrings 65 points higher, Adductors (inner thigh) 30 points lower.

Other ways to train this

• Seated Leg Curl Machines
• Lying Leg Curl Machines
• Ball Leg Curl Exercise ball
• Banded Standing Leg Curl Resistance bands

Other exercises for the Hamstrings

• TRX Lunge 25% Suspension trainer
• TRX Pistol Squat 20% Suspension trainerIntermediate
• TRX Squat 10% Suspension trainer
• Romanian Deadlift 90% BarbellIntermediate

Exercise illustrations and data by RepDB (repdb.co), used under licence.