Object

• curl: Players squat, front and back, do leg extensions, leg press and hamstring curls.

• injury: I had a hamstring injury leading up to the final.

• muscle: Short, tight hamstring muscles can spell disaster for many sports people.

• stretch: Keeping your feet firmly on the floor, extend your elbows back, whilst moving into a standing hamstring stretch.

• trouble: Neil Cox remains out with back and hamstring trouble and Ryan Lowe is a doubt with a shin injury.

Converse of object

• stretch: An example is leg swings to stretch the hamstrings.

• pull: We thought he had pulled a hamstring or something.

Adjective modifier

• torn: A torn hamstring will keep Woodgate out for a month.

• tight: Katharine Merry, sidelined from the Spar European Cup by tight hamstrings, ran a 200m personal best, 22.76 seconds.

• dodgy: God knows what I was doing betting on that with a dodgy hamstring.

Modifies a noun

• strain: The winger missed last weekend's win over his old club, Man City, with a slight hamstring strain.

• injury: Ryan Giggs ' hamstring injury has finally forced him out of the game against the Swiss.

• tendon: Doesn't it matter if your hamstrings tendon is removed?

• stretch: The hamstring stretch is an essential aspect of your treatment regime.

• pull: Joe Maddock has also been forced to withdraw due to a hamstring pull suffered in the Captain's run yesterday.

Modifying Another Word

• tight: Short, tight hamstring muscles can spell disaster for many sports people.