Sentences with phrase «flex knees and hips»

Flex knees and hips to slide feet toward glutes until feet are directly under knees.

First flex your knees and hips, then start sitting back with the hips while maintaining the back neutral.

Initiate the movement with a squat, flexing the knees and hips to lower your body.

Not exact matches

Hips should be back, shoulders forward (eyes and chest up) and knees flexed (positive shin angles)

When holding or feeding your baby, cradle her so that her shoulders are forward with her arms tucked into her chest and with her legs flexed (bent) at the hips and knees.

Within the womb, a baby spends a long time tucked in the fetal position, in which both hips and knees are bent or flexed.

Ensure baby's hips and knees are in a flexed froglike position inside the swaddle.

Help her to flex the free (upper / non-weight bearing) leg up toward her tummy so that hip and knee are bent and her upper thigh is close to or almost touching her tummy.

Experts recommend swaddling baby in a natural position with elbows, knees and hips flexed for proper joint development, and with baby's hands within reach of mouth so baby can suck on his or her fingers to self - console.

Although there are myriad psychological, emotional and physiological benefits from the swaddling style of the Navajos, there is clear evidence that swaddling the legs so that they were bound together and not allowed to flex at the knee or at the hip, has lead to hip abnormalities (Crisholm, 1983).

This is important as it will give him the chance to flex his knee, hip and trunk muscles.

The device, worn over the legs with a harness over the back and around the shoulders, has motorized joints at the hips and the knees and passive joints for sidestepping, turning and pointing, and foot flexing.

Bend legs so your hips and knees are flexed to 90 degrees.

Pull your knee toward your chest to flex your knee, hip and hamstring.

Inhale again as you flex your knees or hips and lower the barbell to the floor or until your thighs are in a horizontal position.

Step forward with one leg and flex the knee so your hips can go down.

As you stand on the bench with your left leg, flex your right knee and hip, bringing your knee as high as you can.

Lower the weight as far as possible by flexing the hips and knees.

Holding the kettlebell in front of you (arms should not be flexed), with your core engaged and your back kept straight, bend your knees and send your hips backwards, lowering your body and the kettlebell as far as you can without compromising your posture.

Raise your legs by flexing the hips and knees until the knees are well above hips or close to your chest.

In general, during a squat, you want your hips, knees and ankles to flex adequately and lower the body to the desired depth, while not allowing the spine to change in curvature during the entire movement (known as keeping a neutral spine).

The hips flex and turn outward as the knees move away from each other.

Begin to slowly lower, flexing at the knee and hip to lower your body down, maintaining good posture throughout the movement.

It is the only muscle of the group which crosses the hip joint and is a powerful knee extensor when the hip is extended, but is weak when the hip is flexed.

Pick up the left foot; bend the left knee; bring the left heel toward the left glute; flex the left foot, engage the gluteus maximus muscle (muscle in the center of the seat) to move the left knee slightly behind the left hip; keeping the left leg slightly behind the right leg also works to give the left hip and thighs a lengthening stretch.

Another way to do the stretch is to lay on your back with one leg straight out on the floor and the other flexed 90 degrees at the hip, knee straight using a towel around the foot or ankle.

You want to start by bending slightly at the waist with the hips and knees slightly flexed.

This means the knees must be extended and the hips flexed in the starting position of every leg curl exercise.

The hamstrings are responsible for knee flexion, hip extension and rotation on the knee joint when flexed.

STARTING POSITION (SETUP): Flex your knees slightly and bend over so that your back is almost parallel to the floor, with your feet hip - width (shoulder - width) apart.

This one you perform standing, flexing at both the knee's and hips slightly (almost like a 1/2 squat position).

Pull the bar across the front of the shoulders while keeping your torso erect and flexing the hips and knees to absorb the weight of the bar.

Being scrunched up in an airplane seat with your shoulders curled forward, hip flexors flexed, and your knees bent in a seated position can be very unhealthy.

The ideal vaginal breech presentation is a frank breech position in which baby's buttocks are down and the legs in pike position, hips flexed and knees straight.

The Sartorius is a two joint muscle and so is weak when the knee is flexed and the hip is flexed at the same time.

Start the development by flexing the hips and knees, drawing the legs up.

Strong, firm buttocks are attention worthy not just for aesthetic reasons but for balancing out the hip flexors, a group of four muscles that move the thighs toward the abdomen and flex the knees.

Maintain a neutral spine and set the hips back, flexing the hips and knees simultaneously.

In contrast, in COD maneuvers, hip and knee joint angles are more flexed.

Since strength is specific, then: strength training exercises or exercise variations involving moderately flexed peak knee angles, very flexed hip and trunk angles, and some torso rotation or lateral bend may be most valuable for improving COD ability.

I start with both clubs up, I'm going to arc the clubs down behind me, flex at the hips and the knees to create that impact.

These muscles work together to flex and bend your knees or strengthen your stance and your hips.

How to: Standing with feet hip - width apart, grab hold of your toes and squat as low as you can comfortably, making sure you don't let your knees pass your toes or allow your spine to flex forward (chest touching knees) to compensate for not flexing the hips (a).

Step down with the left leg by flexing the hip and knee of the right leg as you inhale.

The bicep femoris, semimembranosus, and the semitendinosus are all used for flexing the knee as well as hip extension.

To determine right knee extensor MVC force production, the subjects were seated on a knee extension table with the knee and hip flexed at 90 °.

They reported that the clam with added elastic resistance was a very effective gluteus maximus exercise (followed by the unilateral glute bridge and the quadruped hip extension with knee flexed).

This study tested muscle activation during maximum voluntary contractions of hip extension, in different hip flexion joint angles while the knee was flexed, and found that gluteus maximus EMG amplitude was reduced by a third when the hip was flexed, compared to when it was fully extended.

The majority of these comparisons demonstrate that exercises with minimal knee extension movement and with the peak muscle force exerted with a fully - extended hip are superior (quadruped hip extension, prone hip extension with flexed knee, and front plank with hip extension).