Sentences with phrase «keeping pelvis»

Engage your abdominal muscles and your hamstrings; they should be doing the work of keeping your pelvis stable and lifted.

Only open the top leg as far as you can while keeping the pelvis still.

During running, the gluteal muscles hold the pelvis steady, keeping the pelvis, torso, and legs in good alignment.

Keeping your pelvis (hips) level, you may want to place your hands on your hip bones.

So if you find your pelvis reaching the floor before your elbows are fully bent, return to Dog Pose and start over, keeping your pelvis high in the air.

Hold this position keeping your pelvis tucked and make sure that your lower back does not arch and try to hold for 60 seconds.

Focus on keeping the pelvis as flat as you possibly can.

For the trunk rotations, you can use a Nautilus - type machine that allows you to twist your torso against variable resistance while keeping your pelvis in place.

Lean backward slowly 30 degrees, keeping your pelvis stable and back straight; don't arch.

Examples of Beginner Pilates exercises that promote hip / leg differentiation — getting a nice flexion at the hip while keeping the pelvis stable include knee folds, single leg stretch, and leg kick front and back.

While keeping the pelvis forward, drop into a shallow knee bend.

While keeping your pelvis neutral, work on inching the non-stretching foot forward as you feel the stretch of the foot on the half dome (in the case of the single foot calf stretch) and if doing the double calf stretch (with both feet on the towel / half dome) it's helpful to stand facing a chair and place your hands on the back of it, bending slightly from the hips to get a stretch all the way up your hamstrings.

That's because keeping your pelvis fixed limits the rotation in your lower spine.

Keeping the pelvis stable is not easy, and it's a detail that is often passed over in Revolved Triangle.

Keeping your pelvis stable and square toward the floor (with the hip bones horizontally and vertically even) will help you do this.

Even if you're accustomed to dropping your back hip, try keeping your pelvis fixed and observe the difference in the way your body feels.

Fully explore the relationship between keeping the pelvis stable and the spine mobile, since it is very similar to the alignment in Revolved Triangle Pose.

You may notice that keeping your pelvis square forfeits some of the turn of your upper body, but now that you understand the anatomy of twists, you know that keeping one point fixed is essential.

Extend your right leg straight out while keeping your pelvis and spine completely still.

The gluteus maximus wants to extend down toward the feet keeping the pelvis in a neutral position.

Lie with your body facing away from the band, ensure there is tension in the band, extend both arms up to the ceiling and pull the band down towards your sides while keeping your pelvis neutral.

Keeping your pelvis straight and upper body straight (this is not a squat per se, we are not sitting back), lower your body until your thighs are close to or at parallel with the floor.

The reason we love this position is that it is great for getting rest while also keeping your pelvis very open.

Keep your pelvis tucked and remember that your center of gravity is pulled forward a little since you're holding baby.

Sleeping with a pillow between your knees may help to keep your pelvis correctly aligned in the night

Without the footbar to put the feet on, you can lie on a mat and place your legs in tabletop, then try to keep the pelvis level as you tap one foot down on the mat at a time.

Keep your pelvis and buttocks flat on the bench to ensure stability in the core, and push your feet well into the ground to ensure overall stability.

Work to keep your pelvis pushed up so that your torso and legs create a line parallel to the floor.

If this should happen again, I'll use the peanut ball while resting to keep my pelvis open.

Draw the left hip forward and right hip back to keep the hips square, and tuck your tailbone to keep the pelvis from tipping forward.

Be sure to put a pillow between your knees to keep the pelvis aligned and use another pillow under your stomach if needed.

It's important to keep the pelvis balanced during pregnancy for several reasons.

Keep your pelvis pressing down throughout nice and evenly.

So I keep my pelvis nice and perpendicular to the floor, upright here.

Be aware to keep the pelvis open.

Press the top of the thigh down to keep your pelvis and lower back level.

Press the top of your thigh back to keep your pelvis upright, not tucked.

Keep your pelvis fixed, and this time feel how the shoulders create the torque, like a corkscrew.

In this pose, it's just the opposite: The left knee on the floor keeps the pelvis fixed while your left arm reaches toward the left to create spinal rotation.

When you deconstruct the architecture of spinal twists, you can see that they typically come in two varieties: You either keep your shoulders fixed while the pelvis rotates the spine, or vice versa — you keep the pelvis fixed and use your shoulders to help you turn the spine.

Keep your abdominal muscles engaged throughout the movement to keep your pelvis and lower back stable.

For example, a front bridge position will require lower ab strength to keep your pelvis elevated and your spine from sagging.

You need a strong, stable core to keep your pelvis stable when you run.

The key to strengthening the back, according to a study, is to keep the pelvis from moving so that the back muscles do the work, not bigger muscles like the gluteals (in the buttocks) or hamstrings (in the thighs).

One hip or the other may sink toward the floor, so try to keep the pelvis in a relatively neutral position, hips parallel to the floor.

Use your thumb and fingers to help keep your pelvis steady, as you roll your right thigh open so you can plant your right heel flat on the floor, with the foot angled about 45 degrees toward the right side of the mat.

I get numbness in my calf after doing these trying to keep my pelvis neutral.

Well, if you want to effectively turn on your pelvic floor - glute combo you need to be able to sit back, this allows you to keep your spine from excessively rounding or arching, you need to be able to keep your pelvis in neutral so when you sit back, the underside of the body can turn on like a forklift, rather than the quads turning on like a crane.

A. Your student's back is strong enough to handle it B. Your student keeps her pelvis grounded on both sides when she attempts it.

Keep your pelvis and lower back solid throughout the set.