The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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and 5.53 that session and then dropped another one- to two-tenths after a week of additional
training.
Lesson learned: keep your chin tucked and don't look up. It pulls your torso upright and
leads to striking with the heel, which can cause hamstring tears. The forces generated in the 40-
yard dash are obscene. Keep in mind that DeFranco coaches athletes who can deadlift 600
pounds for repetitions, and his advice to bodybuilders who want to develop their "hammies" is
simple:
Sprint.
I'd be getting back to sprinting, but the rst order of business was ice and Hannah Montana. I
needed to heal.
The next leg of my journey was going to require a hell of a lot more than 40 yards.
Is there anything I could have done to prevent my hamstring pull?
If there is one injury Joe understands, it is the hamstring pull. His pre-hab prescription was
effectively threefold:
1. Train the natural glute-ham raise