hamstring

Object

• curl: Players squat, front and back, do leg extensions, leg press and hamstring curls.
• strain: A hamstring muscle strain is a tear or stretch of a major muscle in the back of the thigh.
• 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.

Subject

• lack: Action is hamstrung by the lack of effective legislation.

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?
• muscle: An injury to the hamstring muscle at the back of the thigh, is the most frequently seen muscle injury in the body.
• 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.

Preposition: by

• lack: Action is hamstrung by the lack of effective legislation.