Sentences with phrase «engaging hamstring»

Roller Pro Tip: Â As you inhale and lift in this pose, be sure to engage your hamstrings to keep pressure out of your lower back.

Tip: «When performing box jumps, start in a quarter squat and hinge from the hips to engage the hamstrings and glutes,» says Strickland.

So that you avoid overstressing your front quadriceps in this deep lunge, engage your hamstrings so they can start to do some of the work.

For this exercise, the weight needs to be heavy enough to fully engage the hamstrings (back of the thigh) and gluteus muscles.

To squat maximum weight, you need to learn how to engage your hamstrings at the bottom.

Also, your back should be slightly leaning forward and your hips are slightly pushed back to engage your hamstrings.

The Low Bar Squat also works out more muscle mass than the other squat variations because it uses «Hip Drive», which engages the hamstrings more.

Isometrically pull your feet back toward your hands to engage your hamstrings and gluteals.

Not exact matches

Such Catholic philosophy is hamstrung by its failure to engage fully with material reality, and its credibility is shaken in the light of the specific, successful and useful results of science.

To begin with the exercise, exhale and flex your knees by engaging just your hamstrings, this will pull the machine lever inwards.

Keep your spine neutral at all times and your core engaged as you use your quads, glutes and hamstrings to swing the kettlebell forward and return to standing position.

These classic lateral lunges also help stretch your hamstrings (a godsend for runners), while engaging your core.

Engaging your back, glutes and hamstrings, lift your hands and feet a few inches off the ground (c).

They will fatigue much faster than your glutes and hamstrings that are engaged in the «booty over the saddle» position.

Working leg is bent, engaging the glutes and hamstrings, while the non-working leg is straight and stretching through the inner thighs.

And depending on the type of plank you try, you can also engage your back, arms, shoulders, glutes, and hamstrings.

And to really get your hamstrings burning and powerfully engage the abs, you have to try the deficit reverse lunge.

Brace your core (tighten your abs, pulling your belly button towards your spine), engage glutes and hamstrings, and flatten your back so your entire body is neutral and straight.

Since it thoroughly engages the glutes, hamstrings, erector spinae and the deep spinal muscles, it's practically a must - do exercise for sculpting a strong backside.

Dig your heels down into the box or step and drive your hips up, engaging your glutes and hamstrings.

When a person swings the kettlebell correctly, he or she engages the posterior chain and fires the glutes and hamstrings and gets the areas that have been weakened or deactivated by day - to - day sitting to strengthen and work.

In addition to your abs, this move engages your back, quads, and hamstrings, making it a great full - body exercise for runners.

Plant your top foot on a box and focus on engaging your glutes and hamstrings to pull you up through the heel, as opposed to pushing too much with the bottom leg.

A total booty and hamstring move, the elevation adds just a little more intensity, and the single leg element will force you to engage your core stabilizers as well as your lower back muscles.

One of my favorite complex moves that engages your whole body, is a major fat burner and gets your hamstrings and glutes involved.

The humble squat might just be the most effective exercise you can do: It engages the entire lower half of the body, including the hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves, while also hitting the core, shoulders, and back.

You'll engage your core as balance your upper body on the Bosu Ball, and get a killer burn in your hamstrings as you lift and lower on one leg.

Tri-set: Wide Stance Dumbbell Squats (press with heels to engage the glutes & hamstrings) 3 sets of 10 - 15 reps Lying Leg Curls 3 sets of 10 - 15 reps Wide Stance Dumbbell Squats (press with heels to engage the glutes & hamstrings) 3 sets using the same weight as above performing as many repetitions as you can.

So, for example, if you are doing squats, then you are primarily targeting and engaging your quadricep muscles, hamstring muscles, and your core muscles (learn more about your core muscles).

The lunge - step up combo engages the glutes and upper hamstrings, while also working the stability muscles and getting your heart rate up.

Try this: watch yourself in the mirror; while standing upright with shoulders back and retracted, all at once, squeeze your abdominals, lower back, glutes, quads and hamstrings thus engaging your core.

A brisk walk activates your glutes and hamstrings (backside), engages the core and gets the heart rate up.

Fully engage your lower back muscles, hamstrings and glutes.

Put simply, when you are active, the muscles engaging are coming from your lower back and hamstrings, not your butt.

The main thing to remember is that your hips should remain lifted, glutes and core engaged, before and during the entire hamstring curl movement.

If he or she wishes to improve bone density, back strength, or improve weak hamstrings, he or she is FAR better served engaging in a carefully designed weight training program incorporating a deadlift variation or two - there is less chance for injury, a much shorter learning curve, and quite frankly he or she will be less physically devastated after a few sets of deadlifts than after moving a tractor tire back and forth across a parking lot.

When the hip crease is below the knee, your glutes, adductors and hamstrings are all engaged.

Strongly engage the tops of the thighs to protect the hamstrings.

A great example of a compound exercise is the squat exercise, which engages many muscles in the lower body and core, including the quadriceps, the hamstrings, the calves, the glutes, the lower back and the core.

By working with the resistance, you engage and work smaller muscles in the legs and butt in addition to all larger muscle groups such as hamstrings, gluteus, adductors and hips.

One day, you'll work with heavier weights and fewer reps while the other day, you'll work with lighter weights and more reps.. When working the legs is important that you achieve the appropriate range of motion so you can fully engage the gluteus and the hamstrings (sometimes neglected because of the wrong form).

Throughout swan, the abdominals stay engaged and the shoulders, back, inner thighs, pelvic floor, glutes, and hamstrings are at work.

Strong quads, an engaged core and a stabilized low back are all pieces of the open hamstring pie.

This will engage your glutes and hamstrings.

But it won't make you engage your quads less and use your hamstrings more — that's not true.

Active glutes and hamstrings engage the posterior chain, rather than the small muscles of the back.

As you lower, you should feel your hamstrings and middle and lower butt muscles engaging — not your upper legs and knees.

As you did in the previous two poses, engage your gluteal and hamstring muscles to prevent the back thighbone from moving forward as you move your tailbone down and forward.

(Which is also why just stretching the hamstring isn't going to bring relief; stretching doesn't engage or adjust the joints, where the problem is.)

Compared to the squat or deadlift, the motion of cycling itself is heavily quadriceps intensive - though the glutes and hamstrings may be engaged during high intensity speed bouts while in the drops (low handlebars) or aero position, the majority of cycling up in the hoods (high handlebars) or bartops does not appreciably engage the posterior chain - certainly not to the extent that many strength athletes have developed this musculature.