Sentences with phrase «bending your legs as»

To get the most out of the move, «Make sure to drive through the heel of the bent leg as opposed to coming to toes, and keep an eye on the extended hand or weight to maintain proper shoulder position,» Theodore says.

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.

Don't force while straightening out the bent leg as it can cause sprain or other injury to the hamstrings, adductor muscles, etc..

In Jānuśīrṣāsana A, make sure your sit bones are on the floor and keep your bent leg as close to 90 degrees as possible, pressing your heel to the perineum and the upper part of the inner thigh.

Not exact matches

As Gilyard prepared to bend down into a defensive stance, Dixon planted his right leg into the hardwood and whipped the ball across his body.

You'll probably want to extend the legs on the activity table as high as possible, making it easier for your child to play without having to bend over.

Some moms have complained that the low ride prevents older children from being as comfortable as a young toddler, since they will have to bend their legs to keep from dragging.

Lay your baby flat on their back, hold their feet, bend one knee while you straighten the other and pump their legs as if they were riding an imaginary bicycle.

To get those muscles contracting, lay your baby down on his back and start to move his legs in a half - bent position, as though he is riding a bike.

Many people, no matter their age, want arms and legs as strong as steel and minds and imaginations flexible enough to bend, expand and express artistic ideas.

Ninth Place: Syamantak Payra, 16, of Friendswood, Texas, received a $ 50,000 award for creating a smart bionic leg brace that bends the knee automatically as the wearer walks.

So when he got to Georgia Tech and heard the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, wanted better tech for knee injuries, he thought: [knee - cracking recording] Why not strap tiny microphones to people's knees, to eavesdrop as their legs bend?

But if the bones are curved — as leg bones often are, even if only slightly — they also sustain bending stresses that result when weight isn't precisely centered on the bone's cross section.

As it moves, the robot will bend one of its knee joints and then straighten it; if the knee joint fails to straighten, the robot determines that it can not put weight on that leg without falling over.

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.

He points out that elephant legs can bend almost as much as human limbs can.

The front leg should be bent in front of the body as close to a right angle as possible with the back leg straight out behind.

Unlike many other bones, your kneecap floats freely, moving back and forth as you bend your leg.

Release the arms as you rise up and bend back again for a reverse warrior pose, with the left hand resting on the left leg and the right hand reaching overhead and behind you.

Keeping your chest up, bend your elbows to lower your body as far as your shoulders will allow, legs extended in front of you.

Keep them lifted as you roll the ball forward until legs are straight; bend knees to roll the ball back in.

Keeping back flat and abs tight, bend left knee slightly and hinge forward from hips; reach right hand toward floor as you extend your right leg and left arm back.

The glutes work with the psoas of lifted leg to keep it from floating back, as the oblique abdominals allow the side of your trunk to bend.

Begin to bend forward from the waist as you extend your arms out in front of you and your left leg behind you.

Keep your legs straight as you bend forward from the hips and pull in your stomach.

It's very likely you have Baker's cyst if you feel a swelling in the form of a lump behind the knee, as you bend and straighten the leg.

Then, lift your left leg up, bending at the knee, as you bring your left arm down, touching knee to elbow.

Slowly point your foot as you inhale, extending your right leg straight back and then flex your foot as you slowly exhale and bend the knee back in toward your butt.

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.

Come up out of squat, letting kettlebell swing out in front of you to chest height, then bend at hips and knees to squat back down as it swings back between legs.

As you crunch your head and neck up, straighten one leg and twist towards the bent knee.

From here, exhale as you bend over the legs, letting the head and neck go as you come into a forward fold.

As one - arm dumbbell rows are performed in a bent - over position, you have one leg and one hand on a bench, creating stability and balance which allows you to freely focus on achieving the best contraction possible.

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.

As you exhale, slowly bend forward from the hip joints (as opposed to bending from the waist), keeping both legs extended and emphasize the lengthening of the front torsAs you exhale, slowly bend forward from the hip joints (as opposed to bending from the waist), keeping both legs extended and emphasize the lengthening of the front torsas opposed to bending from the waist), keeping both legs extended and emphasize the lengthening of the front torso.

As you start to lower yourself, bend one leg and bring your knee up to your elbow.

Holding yourself up in reverse plank as before, slide both legs out straight together, then press through the heels to draw them in to a 90 degree bend beneath the knees together.

Reverse motion; as you return to start, bend left knee, lifting left foot behind right leg so that your right hand and left sole touch.

What to do: From seated position with feet off the ground, squeeze your abs and pull knees in as you pass a weight (or medicine ball or an imaginary object) under your bent leg.

Walk the hands side - to - side as you transition your weight from one leg to the other, bending one knee then the other.

Keep only a slight bend in the knees and make sure you tip forward, not squat down, as you swing the bell between your legs.

Keep a slight bend in your knee and stay relaxed in your leg, so as you roll from right to left, your leg can roll around too.

You can bend one knee at a time if that feels good, but be careful not to jam the knee back as you straighten the legs.

B. Breathing in, bend at waist keeping back straight and knees stable as you lower dumbbells over your legs toward your feet.

From here, lift your left leg into the air as your press your heel towards the sky. Keep your knee bent and go only as high as you can without allowing your back to arch.

Stand in middle of dip station and grasp handles, then straighten arms lifting yourself up off the floor, then bend legs bringing knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower legs down to standing.

In the full expression of this posture, the heel of the bent leg should press back into the navel as you fold forward in order to receive its full benefits.

From standing, bring legs up with knees bent one at a time as high as you can.

The knee joint forms at the intersection of four bones, the femur (your thigh bone), the tibia and fibula (the two bones of your lower leg) and the patella, (your kneecap) which slides over the top of the joint as you bend your knee.

While the leg press focuses on the quads, as a result of bending your knees further, hack squats target the lower quads.