Raise your legs bent at the knees, making the calves parallel to the floor and forming a right angle.
To
raise the legs bent at the knee, or straight.
You can
raise the legs bent or straight.
Not exact matches
When she
raises a
bent leg forward, he answers with a quick kick aft.
Kohei Okamoto at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and his team spotted the molluscs
raising their front arms while they
bent their other
legs, as if they had joints.
Lie on the floor on your back with the hands behind the head and then
raise the
legs and
bend them at 90 degrees.
Lying on your back, with your knees
bent and your feet flat on the floor,
raise one
leg in the air.
For an easier version of this, perform
leg raises without the candlestick lift or while
bending your knees on the way down.
From here, keep your right
leg bent and
raise it to hip height to the side of your body, then lower it back down to the mat.
Next,
bend your left knee, bring it up and in toward your chest, then rotate your waist as you
raise your
bent left
leg out until it's parallel to the floor.
Loosen your hips using this kneeling hip stretch: Kneel on left
leg, with right
leg bent at 90 degrees in front of you; place right hand on right hip and
raise left arm (A).
If the straight
leg raise proves to be too hard for you at the moment, modify the movement by
bending the knees until you develop more strength in the lower body.
Start the exercise by putting both hands and kneed on the floor and
raise the
leg to the side as high as possible while keeping it
bent all the time throughout the movement.
Then
bend the standing knee slightly and crunch both your arms and
raised leg in towards your torso.
Lizard Lunge (Right Side): From downward - facing dog,
raise your right
leg in the air,
bending the knee to open up the hip.
Hang yourself from a bar, keep the
legs straight or your knees
bent slightly and then start
raising them until you reach a 90 - degree angle with your torso and
legs.
Raise yourself up on the bars with your arms extended and supporting the entire weight of your body, then
bend your knees and intertwine your
legs.
Keeping both
legs bent,
raise your right knee towards the ceiling.
-- Lie flat on your back — Put your arms straight out at your sides for some leverage —
Raise your
legs (you can keep your knees
bent if it's too hard to keep the
legs extended)-- Rotate your hips left and right to both sides like a windshield wiper.
The Pendulum Targets: Entire core Lie on the floor flat on your back and
raise your
legs until you have a 90 - degree
bend at the hips.
You can take the variation I show you first in the video where you
bend your knees and do alternating knee ins, or you can straighten the
legs and do straight
leg raises up and down.
Sample Exercise Setup: Chest — 3 exercises, 1 incline, 1 flat and 1 decline Back — 4 exercises, 1 wide chin up or latt pull, 1 row, 1 pulley or machine row, Deads or pullovers (alternate between these two) Delts — 3 exercises, overhead press, side laterals,
bent laterals Triceps — 3 exercises, overhead tricep extension with bar or dumbbell, cable pressdown, machine dip Biceps — 3 exercises, preacher curl, barbell or dumbbell curl, cable curl Quads — 3 exercises, press of some kind, extension, hack or press or squat of some kind Hams — 1 exercise,
leg curl Calves — 3 exercises, standing calf
raise,
bent lower back calf
raise (like donkey calf
raises where your upper body and lower body are in an «L» shape), seated calf
raises Abs - 3 exercises, weighted machine crunch, hanging
leg lifts, cable reverse crunches Traps — 1 exercise, shrugs
Before this session, I did an ab sequence: side
leg raises on a bench (20 each
leg), ball pikes (10 — see past post for how to), and 20 upper ab crunches (knees
bent, feet on the floor).
Alternatively you can build a ton of strength in your lower abdominals in preparation for the straight
leg lift by
bending your knees and
raising them up and down to either side.
Maintaining the knee
bent at a 90 degree angle,
raise your right
leg out to the side until your thigh is parallel to the floor.
Exhale and
bend forward into a standing forward
bend, then inhale and
raise your left
leg parallel to the floor and press the left sole against the wall.
I suggest you do your hanging
leg raises with slightly
bend arms.
Do the hanging
leg raise with
legs straight until you reach 90 degrees and once at that position
bend you
legs as you did for the
leg tuck and continue the movement until your feet touch the bar you are hanging on.
Simply stand near a wall and
raise and
bend one of your
legs.
Keeping your
legs extended, as straight as possible with your knees slightly
bent but locked,
raise your
legs until they make a 90 - degree angle with the floor.
Quads: squat (or
leg press),
leg extension
Leg bi:
leg curl on 2 different machines calves: standing calf
raise, seated calf
raise Chest: bench press, cable flyes back:
bent over row, pulldown traps: barbell shrugs * shoulders: behind neck press, side lateral bis: barbel curl, one arm dumbell curl on preacher bench tris: lying tricep extension, cable pushdown fores: hammer curls, behind the back standing wrist curls abs: weighted crunches, cable side crunches
When you
raise your torso towards your knees,
bend your
legs upward.
Sit on the floor with your right
leg straight and your left
leg bent (your
legs form a number four) With your back straight,
raise arms then lower while reaching for your toes.
In Eka Hasta Bhujasana,
bend the
raised left
leg and cross your left ankle over your right ankle, maintaining the stretch of the arches of both feet (Figure 3).
If it is difficult for you to
raise your right
leg so that it is well up on your arm, you'll need to work on the aforementioned standing and forward -
bending poses until you have the necessary flexibility for the
leg movement.
If this is difficult, move near a wall and with your
legs vertical,
bend your knees to 90 degrees, press your feet into the wall, and practice
raising your hips.
Bending the Arms or
Legs - Be sure when
raising your feet and arm that you
raise them parallel to the floor.
Single
Leg Deadlifts,
raise one
leg straight back,
bend at the hips and grab the dumbbell with the opposite arm, slowly straighten up to a standing position, repeat on each side.
Raise the
bent leg and use the opposite arm to pull the
leg across your body.
Hanging from a chinup bar, keep your knees slightly
bent, and
raise your
legs to a near 90 degree angle.
Sitting on mat with
legs extended and knees slightly
bent and holding dumbbell close to one hip,
raise legs up off ground and hold them a few inches off ground throughout movements.
Use a rep range of 6 — 10 reps for your straight
leg calf
raises and 8 — 12 reps for your
bent leg (seated) calf
raises if you do them (though these are not essential).
To begin the glut kickback, slowly lift one
leg back, keeping your knee
bent, until the sole of your foot faces the ceiling and your thigh is parallel to the floor.You can target the upper glute muscle by
raising your
leg higher or the lower glute muscle by keeping your
leg at less than parallel to the floor.
You should also perform: 3 × 8 - 12 reverse - grip chin - up with flat bench barbell press superset (60 - second rest) 3 × 8 - 12 dumbbell shrug with hyperextension superset (60 - second rest) 3 × 15 - 20 floor crunch with
bent - knee hanging
leg raise (no rest).
Establish balance by
bending slightly in the left
leg as you slowly
raise your arms upwards and above your head.
This is a similar exercise to
leg raises, but because your knees are
bent it is slighlty less challenging.
trap - bar
bent -
legged deadlift 1 x 15 - 20 followed immediately by Rader chest pull 1 x 20 rest 5 minutes supine
leg curl 1 x 10 - 15 seated calf
raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D.
raise 1 x 8 - 12 barbell side
bend 1 x 8 - 12 barbell bench press 1 x 8 - 12 chin - up or pull - down 2 x 8 - 12 military barbell overhead press 2 x 8 - 12 shrug 2 x 8 - 12 close - grip bench press 2 x 8 - 12 standing biceps curl with straight bar and arm blaster 1 x 8 - 12 hammer curl 1 x 8 - 12 crunch 1 x 15 - 20 reverse crunch 1 x 10 - 15
bent -
legged deadlift with Olympic bar 2 x 8 - 10 followed immediately by light dumbbell pullover 2 x 15 rest 5 minutes after both sets one -
legged calf
raise 1 x 15 - 20 D.A.R.D.
raise 1 x 8 - 10
leg press on angled
leg press machine 1 x 10 - 12 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 8 - 10 pullover 1 x 8 - 10 barbell row with underhand grip 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell overhead press with 1 dumbbell 1 x 8 - 10 shrug 1 x 6 - 8 seated overhead triceps dumbbell extension 1 x 8 - 10 standing biceps curl with straight bar and arm blaster 1 x 8 - 10 hammer curl 1 x 8 - 10 crunch 1 x 15 - 20
Standing behind dip station, squat and place hands on ground in front of you, jump
legs back into plank position and do a push up, then jump
legs back in and step or reach forward grasping handles of dip station and do a knee
raise, straightening arms to lift yourself up off the floor,
bending legs and bringing knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower
legs down to floor and step back behind dip station.
Proceed to slowly
raise your left
leg up to the sky and then lower the left
leg back down as you
bend your left knee into the chest and aim to land your left foot beside your right hand.