If these are easy,
do straight leg raises and maybe alternate legs.
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.
a good modification for this one is laying on a bench, and
doing straight leg raises, engaging your lower abdominals to lift your hips.
If you cant
do a straight legged raise to horizontal and hold it, then you wont be able to do windshield wipers, so work on this first.
There are a couple of different moves you can perform in this chair, rest your arms on the pads, hold the handles and bring your knees up towards your chest, or for a more intense workout
do a straight leg raise so bring both legs up together keeping them horizontally out in front of you.
Not exact matches
To see results, you'll only need to
do each of the following four exercises twice: jump lunges, sumo squat pulses, tricep push - ups, and
straight leg raises.
If you can't
do a pull - up,
do 10 lat pulldowns followed by 10 hanging,
straight leg raises (hang from a bar and
raise the
legs).
And last but not least, for the calves, you can
do any type of
leg calf
raise, as long as your
legs are
straight.
How to
do it: Lie face down on a mat with your
legs together and then
raise yourself on to your forearms and balls of your feet (hands and forearms will be flat on the floor with you elbows directly under your shoulders), keep a
straight line from your head to heels and your abs tight, you need to stay looking down in order to keep the spine in neutral position.
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.
To increase the intensity try hanging
leg raises by using the top handles (if the chair has them otherwise you can use a pull up / chin up bar or even a sturdy tree branch) and
do either the knee or
straight leg raises.
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 increase the intensity try hanging
leg raises by using the top handles (if the chair has them otherwise hang from the pull up bar) and
doing either the knee or
straight leg raises.
To
do a single
leg glute bridge,
raise one foot up so the knee is
straight.
When
doing alternating
straight leg raises, always pause at the peak of each rep for the best results.
You can
do simple exercises, such as forward lunges or
straight leg raises.
This is
done just like Lying Leg
Raises but hanging from a bar and
raising your
legs which have to be maintained
straight.
What you want to
do is perform this movement but instead of holding your
legs outward, you will be
raising your
legs from the hanging position as high as you can go (while keeping your
legs dead
straight) and then letting them back down.
(Don't
raise it
straight up, or you'll be teaching your cat to stand on his rear
legs rather than sit!)
Dr. Fritz
did not treat the plaintiff before his accident and it is therefore understandable that he would conclude that the disc injury occurred in the accident when the plaintiff demonstrated a restricted
straight leg raising after the accident.