Assessment of inter-individual variability in hamstring muscle recovery after a sport-specific sprint training in women and men.

Hamstring muscles are most affected by multiple sprint-based sports as a result of muscle strain during sprinting, leading to reduced performance and increased risk of injury. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to assess inter-individual variability in hamstrings recovery after a sport-specific repeated-sprint training (RST), through sprint-specific markers of muscle recovery and associated muscle damage biomarkers in women and men. Healthy females ( = 14) and males ( = 15) underwent 10 repeated 40-m sprints with a 3-min rest pause between each repetition.