Sentences with phrase «flexors which»

Experts suggest that more contraction on your hamstring may disengage your hip flexors which can make the muscles on your stomach work harder.

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Goalkeeper Xavier Sundby came through the Oldham game with no recurrence of his hip flexor injury which forced him to be substituted the week before.

Paulo Dybala underwent an MRI at J Medical this morning which showed a mild to medium strain to his right thigh flexor.

Sami Khedira undergoes medical tests on Thursday which reveal a mild strain of the flexor muscles in his left thigh.

The reviewers found few studies evaluating the effectiveness in the ACL rehabilitation process of so - called «open chain» exercises (those which tend to isolate a single muscle group and a single joint, such as leg curls and leg extensions, with or without added weight) versus «closed chain» exercises (those which work multiple joints and multiple muscle groups at once, such as, for example, a squat involves the knee, hip and ankle joints, and multiple muscles groups, e.g. quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, calves and glutes, with body weight alone or with added weight).

This position helps your little one stretch each side of her torso and neck, balance strength on the front side of the body and back side of the body (flexor and extensor muscle groups) and bring hands together at the middle of the body (called the midline), which is awesome for brain development.

In much simpler words, the core is a collection of muscles which stabilize and move the spine, including the inner core (diaphragm, pelvic floor, multifidus, cervical flexors and transverse abdominis) and the outer core (the rectus abdominis, spinal erectors, the obliques, quadratus lumborum and hip flexors).

It consists of the inner core muscles, such as the diaphragm, pelvic floor and transverse abdominus, which lie deep inside the abdomen and are the first to engage to protect the spine during heavy resistance training; the outer core muscles, including the abs, lats, spinal erectors, glutes and hip flexors, that generate movement and have an important stability function during high - speed activities.

Also, strengthening your transversus abdominus by performing movements which call upon it to stabilize the body (e.g. planks) will help lessen the engagement of the hip flexors.

In particular, sitting too much increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease, plus it makes your hip flexors tight, which can contribute to low back pain and stiffness.

«It helps you maintain proper run posture, which improves efficiency and economy, and facilitates turnover through the hip flexors.»

The forearm is made up of 20 different muscles, of which the flexors and the extensors are of key importance since they regulate the movement of the wrist, fingers and thumb.

Increased flexibility helps to prevent tight hamstrings, hip flexors (the muscle just under the hips) and calves, which are a common occurrence for those who run.

When your hip flexors are unbalanced, that is, too strong in comparison to your opposing lower back and hamstring muscles, or if they become shorter from training without stretching and become «tight», they will pull on your lower spine, which can create lower back pain.

When you spend too much time sitting down, you inadvertently shorten you hip flexors and compress your lower back, which in turn affect your posture,...

Normal squats are an awesome exercise, but endomorphs might have problems with them because the regular back squat activates the glutes and hip flexors, which you certainly do not need to develop if you're an endomorph and want to look good.

Except the increase in muscle mass of forearm flexors — which was significantly greater in the full body group than in the group split.

The Lying Hip Extension is an excellent resistance band exercise for increasing the range of motion in the hip flexors, which will reduce knee pain.

The calves and the bottoms of the feet are going to send the knee forward and pass it off to the hip flexors, which are going to finish the job of the flexion of the hip and the bending of the knee.

Sitting with your shoulders slumped forward, hip flexors shortened, and back rounded can put extra stress on your lower back, which may curve into a «C» shape instead of its natural»S» shape.

Which brings us to the lat pull - down, a highly effective exercise that primarily targets the latissiums dorsi, the large fan - shaped muscle that makes up a big portion of your back, the lower and middle trapezius, the rhomboids and the serratus, while also engaging the elbow flexors, biceps and brachialis as supporting muscles; and is therefore an invaluable tool when it comes to building your back to bigger and better proportions.

Prolonged sitting can weaken the gluteal muscles, which can tighten the hip flexors, can lead to more of an anterior (forward) pelvic tilt, deepen the lumbar curve, and this affects posture.

This group of muscles has 6 heads which include; flexor digitorum profundus, flexor digitorium superfisialis, flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus and flexor pillicis longus.

Unlike the wrist flexors, this one has only one head which is the brachioradialis itself.

These are both great stretches for the hip flexor (psoas), which tends to get tight from sitting.

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.

Most people are stuck in an anterior tilt of the pelvis which causes the erectors and hip flexors to tighten and the abdominals and hamstrings to weaken.

Hip Flexor Holds help you flex your hip joints more powerfully which increases your running speed and agility.

Don't be fooled by leg lift - type exercises which feel like they're targeting your lower abs — they're simply heavily recruiting your hip flexors.

With sit ups, the hips move and the hip flexors contract, which leads to increased tension on the lower back.

To prevent that tightening problem I mentioned above, be sure to stretch your hip flexors after every session and regularly throughout the day if you spend a lot of time in a seated position (which puts your hip flexors in a shortened position for many hours at a time).

There are a ton of [ways to stretch your hip flexors][2] which you can take a look at — we're just going to go with our favorite.

Foam rolling the hip flexors before any sort of glute dominant exercise can help to release some tension which can improve hip extension thus recruiting more glute work.

When the pelvis is tilted forward, whether this is from tight hip flexors, a locked psoas, or weak abdominal muscles, the leg can not fully extend, which makes it harder to fully activate the glutes.

No matter which group of people you are in, with 10 - 15 minutes daily flexibility exercises to unlock hip flexors you can get great health benefits and enjoy better mobility.

Among the lower body muscles, the plantar flexors display the highest proportion of type I muscle fibers, and the knee extensors display the lowest proportion of type I muscle fibers, as shown in the chart below, which presents the mean of the data from all currently available studies.

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).

The other lower abs exercises that you can do are things like leg raises and hip flexor exercises which will be able to specifically isolate your lower abdominals.

Standing Hip - Flexor Stretch This move targets the hip flexors and abdominal muscles, which can become shortened from sitting or from exercises like cycling and running.

Those of us who have desk - bound jobs are more likely to have tight hip flexors because sitting all day puts them in a shortened, active position which essentially means we're at greater risk of tight hip flexors (which is part of the reason we're trying standing desks now).

Aside from helping to prevent injuries, there's another reason: thanks to the good old 9 - 5 spent sitting on our tush, most people have weak glutes, tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings, which means if they dive straight into the exercises they don't target their glutes, but rather other muscles like the thighs (quadriceps in the front, adductors on the inside and hamstrings at the back).

The use of them can potentially limit hand flexor strength gains — which may not be in an athlete's best interest.

If you use anything to keep your feet in place you risk using your hip flexors rather than your abdominals to complete the sit up, which doesn't give a helpful workout.

Although any arm curl will stimulate the biceps, hammer curls stimulate the brachialis muscle which is a strong elbow flexor too.

Since most of us live in hip flexion (sitting on our butts), chances are our hip flexors could use an upgrade in tissue quality, which means lacrosse ball rolling, quad rolling, and half - kneeling stretches.

«Hip Flexor» is simply a collective term which refers to a group of several small muscles located deep in the front of the hip which connect your legs, pelvis, and abdomen.

The hip flexors are a group of muscles which work to lift the thigh upwards.

All of this contributes to tight hip flexors, weak and inactive glutes, and poor deceleration mechanics which stresses out the ACL, potentially causing a tear.

We spend most of our time sitting on our butt (glutes), which causes the muscles opposite of them — the hip flexors — to become tight and inactive.

Actually, these movements don't even isolate the abs; they are integrated exercises that heavily recruit the hip flexor muscles, which are the same muscles used to punt a football.