after 4 weeks of hills i got this severe pain behind my knee
it must be in the hamstring because it hurts a lot doing leg curls (the eccentric part)
it doesnt hurt when i stretch it so i dont think its pulled…
it could be a nerve prob…i dont know?
this is due to running on a 90% even hill (it has a couple divets that when i hit them, it causes a lot of pain.)
it doesnt hurt that much when i run, but after walking around and back down the hill it hurts to FLEXION the hamstring. at the touching point of calves to hamstring it hurts a lot even today on days off
ice massage works
it doesnt hurt that much on flat running
it hurts a lot when squatting…i cant break parallel without pain.
I have had this problem before, stay away from hamstring curls. Do deadlifts instead its much more a multi joint movement and it doesn’t load those tendons like isolation curls.
I had somewhat similar troubles once when also taking a crappy bulk creatine product. just throwing that out there. my issues were resolved within a short time after cessation of the product.
Hamstring curls–particulary with the Cybex single leg isolation machines–seem to stretch ligaments, and this is why other unrelated exercises get affected (I don’t think tendons are the issue, but the ligaments loosen up). It helps to follow the hamstring curls with high intensity cycling against maximum resistance to strengthen at least the muscles around the ligaments. Sprinting up steeper hills and walking down does the same thing.
You’re probably right, there’s definitely excess loading on the connective tissues which are not skeletal muscle. What makes it worse, is that these tissues heal a lot slower then muscle tissue because they don’t have the same vascular networks.