Sentences with phrase «flexion movements»

You want to avoid flexion movements that compress the neck and spine such as rounding your spine forward, twisting to the left or right, and bending forward to touch your toes.

Leg Curls are your knee flexion movement and these can be done either lying, seated or standing, but my personal favorite is lying.

You weren't asking about that region, but I'll tell you anyway that you can train that muscle with any neutral grip elbow flexion movement (e.g. hammer curls, neutral grip pull ups).

Not exact matches

This is where we start to integrate movements where your athletes are learning to prevent or resist extension, flexion, lateral flexion, flexion and rotation of the spine.

Though she twists, spins, lunges and rolls, I bet she is doing so primarily using flexion and extension as well a momentum to get from point A to B rather than controlled movement from side to side, followed by true controlled rotation.

Goose bumps, shivering, extensor movements of the arms, rapid flexion of the elbows, elevation of the arms above the bed, crossing of the hands, reaching of the hands toward the neck, forced exhalation, and thoracic respiratory - like movements... These complex sequential movements are felt to be release phenomena from the spinal cord including the upper cervical cord and do not [emphasis author's] mean that the patient is no longer brain dead.»

Van Norman, however, points out that some exhibit spinal automatism, a complex spectrum of movements including flexion of limbs and trunk, stepping motions, grasping motions, and head turning.

TSNs also ensured accurate target localization during movement; when TSNs were injected in rat's thigh and calf muscles, they did not move even during the flexion and extension of the leg.

The majority of studies seem to support the claim that the dumbbell bench press is a better option for anyone looking to increase his chest size, mainly because of the greater range of motion involved — a greater range of motion on pressing movements means more horizontal flexion and adduction and a greater recruitment of chest muscle fibers.

Being close to the deltoid muscle, the clavicular head significantly contributes to flexion, horizontal adduction and inward rotation of the humerus, and is best engaged with exercises which involve shoulder flexion and movements that end with your elbows above your clavicle.

Since the hips are multidirectional joints that can produce force in three planes of motion, the wide stance squat provides a superior possibility to train the hips in all three planes and develop stable hip joints by producing larger hip extension movements and greater hip flexion than narrow stance squats.

The main opposing movements are elbow flexion and shoulder extension.

The contractions of the biceps pivots the radius bone and provide both supination of the forearm, and flexion at the elbow needed for pulling movement.

Most of strength training is done with trunk flexion and extension with the occasional rotational movement medicine ball throw.

The muscles are responsible for dorsi - flexion (pulling the foot upward), plantar flexion (pushing the foot downward), eversion (turning the foot outward), inversion (turning the foot inward), and combined angle movements.

The core should be strengthened using different movements such as hip flexion, anti-rotation, anti-extension and anti-lateral flexion.

They're called hip flexors because they create flexion in the hip, which is the technical term for a bending movement around a joint in a limb (such as the knee or elbow) that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint.

You'll also feel tremendous glute and haunch engagement which is the key to power, and like I said, adductors are now contributing to hip flexion which powers that balance of the pelvis between the flexion and the extension that is key to running and athletic movement and it's key to lifting heavier weights.

Both muscles contract to produce «plantar flexion» at the ankle joint which is the same movement as standing up onto your tip - toes.

Each of these abs exercises puts your spine in flexion or rotation, and research has shown that rotation and flexion are the exact movements that cause herniated discs in your low back.

The movements of flexion, rotation, and extension are kept in check by maintaining the braced neutral position of the spine during an anti-pattern exercise.

Hip flexors are already tight from training because many sport - specific movements and strength exercises require flexion and extension of the hip.

Focus on gradually squeezing the bicep at the top of the movement and only bringing the weight up asd high as your elbow flexion allows.

Sit - ups work the abs isometrically (without movement) through hip flexion like this as well.

Follow the movements shown in the videos; flexion, lateral rotation, medial rotation, abduction and horizontal flexion / extension.

Plank variations, loaded carries, and movements that require you to resist spinal flexion, extension, or rotation are just a few examples of the types of exercises you should be performing to strengthen your core.

Movement is very limited for this joint, but includes nutation or anterior tilt (flexion) of the sacrum between the ilia, counternutation or posterior tilt (extension) and small movements of the ilia themselves.

The movement patterns that will be trained are axial rotation, lateral flexion, and stabilization.

This is accomplished by pairing low rep exercises which involve torso flexion with planking movements to increase time under tension.

The hip muscles act on three mutually perpendicular main axes, all of which pass through the center of the femoral head, resulting in three degrees of freedom and three pair of principal directions: Flexion and extension around a transverse axis (left - right); lateral rotation and medial rotation around a longitudinal axis (along the thigh); and abduction and adduction around a sagittal axis (forward - backward); [29] and a combination of these movements (i.e. circumduction, a compound movement in which the leg describes the surface of an irregular cone).

Peak knee flexion angles are less acute when using cues to prevent forward knee movement over the toes or as a result of fatigue.

Avoid forward flexion of your neck, particularly during work - outs with weights, as this movement can reverse the proper forward curve in the neck, and therefore interfere with your adjustment (which aims to restore and maintain proper alignment).

They're called hip flexors because they create flexion in the hip, which is the technical term for a bending movement around a joint in a limb that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint (such as the knee or elbow).

Both these movements are used when opening a bottle with a corkscrew: first biceps unscrews the cork (supination), then it pulls the cork out (flexion).

Further the movement involves spinal flexion and too much spinal flexion can lead to problems down the line.

The lateral (side) deltoid is involved in many of the same movements as the anterior deltoid: abduction (moving the arm away from the body), flexion (moving the arm upward to the front), and transverse flexion (moving the arm across the chest).

An MET stretch is performed in the following way, using the hamstrings as an example: The therapist moves the hip into flexion, with the athlete on their back, until they encounter the point of resistance - where the movement stiffens, due to tightness in the hamstrings.

You focus on the eccentric movement with a light weight (1 to 2 pounds / maybe more for the Diesel Universe) doing three sets of 15 repetitions, three times per day where you focus on the eccentric movement of wrist flexion (ME) or wrist extension (LE).

Very few activities use only one plane of movement, there is usually an combination of two or all three planes (flexion / extension; adduction / abduction; and rotation).

He demonstrates the proper execution of the movement with a powerful rowing motion with the arms and an explosive flexion at the hips.

If you are training a lot of forward spinal flexion you should also include back extension as part of your movement practice.

Every movement you make involves one or more of your muscles performing flexion (muscle shortening), while the opposing muscle (s) are performing extension (muscle lengthening), so by using your mind to «stretch» (extend) or «squeeze» (flex) the muscle you can manipulate your body to push and pull its way to success.

Plantar flexion is just medical terminology for the movement of pointing / pressing the ball (front part) of your foot downwards.

There are basically three types of body movements that effectively help to work the abs: flexion and extension, rotation and static contractions.

The hamstrings have two major functions... knee flexion (which is the better known «leg curl» type of movement) and hip extension (which is bringing the thigh backwards).

Resistance Band Shoulder Flexion is my favorite resistance band movement for the upper body, because of the shoulder mobility gained through the movement.

At that weight, you should be able to (say) maintain the shape of the lower back, relax the shoulders, and produce a proper hip flexion and extension through the entire movement.

It is a hip hinge movement, with a little flexion at the knee, under 30 degrees.

The flexion and extension can be seen in a lot of movement patterns in sports where running and jumping is involved and the Back Squat can help to train this pattern.

When you practice any trunk - flexing movement such as Malasana, be careful not to overdo it, because forced flexion can injure the disks and other soft tissue that hold your spine together.