Sentences with phrase «engage quadriceps muscles»

Engage the quadriceps muscles of your thighs and draw then up.

Engage quadriceps muscles and slowly straighten legs, making sure your knees don't lock and your hips stay over the center of your feet.

So, for example, if you are doing squats, then you are primarily targeting and engaging your quadricep muscles, hamstring muscles, and your core muscles (learn more about your core muscles).

Not exact matches

Instead, have the slightest bit of bend in your knee so the quadriceps muscle is engaged.

2⃣ Engage the quadriceps by gluing the thigh muscles to their bones.

A great example of a compound exercise is the squat exercise, which engages many muscles in the lower body and core, including the quadriceps, the hamstrings, the calves, the glutes, the lower back and the core.

B.K.S. Iyengar said that in Trikonasana you need to «entwine the muscles to the bone,» which means that the quadriceps, calves, and gluteal muscles must be actively engaged.

The drive begins with the large quadricep muscles of the thigh pushing the body back; next the core is engaged to add to the work of the legs and lever the body backward.

Lunges are extraordinary leg day exercises — they work so well in sculpting your legs, starting from quadricep muscles, glutes and hamstrings (not to mention engaging your hips and core)