Are you saying you’ve gotten ART done but would re-pull your hamstring anyways? If this is true, then a soft tissue problem probably isn’t what’s causing the hamstring pulls. More than likely you have some kind of biomechanical flaw going on.
As for surgery, there are just too many things that can go wrong with a surgery. Cutting your body open and being induced with nuemrous kinds of drugs is something that should be a last resort. Short of completely tearing your hamstring I can’t think of really any other reason to receive a hamstring operation. The risk reward ratio just isn’t favorable.
You must be able to look at the board (at least peripheral) through the entire final 6 steps or you will miss a lot! Look up “steering” for jumps on the internet there is a lot of stuff on it at the Canadian Athletics coaching center.
yeah i would definitely try to steer away from surgery if you could.
on the training part.
i would try to really work on your 5 bound test, 30m dash, 60m dash (down to sub 7 at least), get your squat over 400, standing long jump and standing triple jump as well.
its kind of amazing u even jumped THAT far this year if you werent able to do any plyos and little speed.
but just remember you have 4 years to build up tolerance, we dont want any more stress problems…
im no expert on technique for running, but im sure you could post a video and have people on here look at your form??
yea, i guess i kind of do look at the board peripherally, but my steering i guess is always an inch off.
i need to focus on not fouling my short approach jumps, this might be giving me bad habits. i saw in a thread that crazyhops created he had the same problem.
is there such thing as too much power work? im confused… i dont think i have near enough power to reach the standard so maybe some ‘power overkill’ in the workload would be beneficial to me
im not a genetic freak by any means, little to no natural ability, i just have a hell of a work ethic, and thats how i got here today.
strengthening the organism even should be a priority, and i was just thinking that OL’s are a little more specific in teaching my hips and upper/lower body to explode in synchrony would help me more than squatting or leg presses…
do u suggest i do anything but squat? or just keep everything on the track and stay out of the weight room? im no expert here!
Hard to say without knowing specifics of the injury, but ART is a start. I found that a combination of ART and Graston did wonders for the built-up scar tissue in my hamstings…