Sentences with phrase «flexors while»

It is more subtle and helps the body find that important sense of letting go of the hip flexors while letting the abs drop back into the trunk.

This stretch relieves tension in the hip flexors while strengthening the muscles around the SI joint like the glutes, outer hips, and lower back.

This pose helps to stretch tight hip flexors while strengthening the core to help avoid sciatica - causing injury.

Her trainer Harley Pasternak previously told Health that this move helped lengthen her abs and hip flexors while simultaneously strengthening her hip extensors, back, glutes, and hamstrings.

But when you move into the warrior position (essentially a modified lunge), you stretch the hip flexors while strengthening your hamstrings and glutes, correcting the imbalance.

Not exact matches

Let your legs hang, and slowly raise your legs towards your chest contracting your hip flexors and abs, while keeping your back pressed against the pad.

«The hanging position allows your arms to be used in an isometric fashion, allowing them to build strength while all abdominals and hip flexors are also being strengthened,» she says.

To prevent overloading your hip flexors, you need to really focus on relaxing them while activating the abs.

Staying in the position we practised last week and while keeping the knee on the floor, lift the lower leg up to increase the stretch in the hip flexor / quad.

While I do try to get up and take frequent breaks to stretch out tight hip flexors, this is not always enough,» she says.

It's about having an engaged core where the abdominal muscles (intercostals, obliques, serratus, and rectus abdominus), lower back, and hip flexors work together to improve posture, range of motion, and structural alignment, while simultaneously firing up the third chakra (manipura).

Inspired by Boat Pose (Navasana) this exercise strengthens the deep abdominal muscles and hip flexors, obliques and psoas, while massaging the lower back.

If you stop and start you'll put great stress on your lower back and your hip flexors, while getting the tension off the muscles that are supposed to be worked.

Tight pecs will make it difficult for you to open your arms wide enough, while tight hip flexors can directly lead to an overarched back.

If you look in the mirror while standing sideways, you'll see your back curves inward because your hip flexors are overly contracted and your glutes are too weak to compensate.

We invited UK - based fitness instructor and creator of the 2 meal - a day Max Lowery to demonstrate how the deep lunge stretch can help lengthen your hip flexors and take stress off lower back, all while giving you a boost to reset your day with some energy.

While doing pullups you will activate the musculature of your trapiezus (traps, all parts), pectorials (pecs, all parts), deltoids (shoulder, all parts), latissimus dorsi (lats), rhomboids, flexor carpi ulnaris, palmaris longus, flexor digitorum profundus, flexor digitorum superficialis, and flexor pollicis longus (just the anatomical way of saying the muscles in the forearm).

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.

The pigeon pose benefits the chest and hip areas, while stretching the thighs, hip rotators and flexors, and aligning the pelvis and increasing the pelvic floor circulation.

This example can be extrapolated to sitting, while not completely immobilized for weeks to months, prolonged sitting can cause hip flexors to shorten through this adaptive shortening process.

While strengthening the hip flexor muscles can relieve the feeling of tightness, research suggests that weak muscles aren't more prone to tightness than strong ones.

I sit down so much while I work and drive, my hip flexors are short enough, so I avoid doing that movement pattern in training as well.

This variation is not only easier on your lower back but helps to remove the hip flexors from the movement, all the while increasing the contraction on the abs.

Engage the quadriceps of the front leg while relaxing the opposite hip flexor to square off the hips.

On the top side, the flexor muscles work to flex (contract) your wrist upwards, while the extensor muscles extend your muscles back to move your wrist into a straight position.

We drive with our arms in front of us while, again, we're seated with shortened hip flexors.

While other programs mainly talk about how to exercise and train to lose weight or get in shape, this guide teaches us about the benefits of loosening the hip flexor muscles (psoas) that leads to belly fat loss, having more energy, better sexual performance and much more.

Why it's on the list: Whether you go fast or slow, you'll get your heart pumping while you strengthen your hip flexors.

While your rectus abdominus is stabilizing your core during the exercise, it's your hip flexors that are doing the work of bringing up your knees.

This means they don't actually contract and move, they just work to hold the torso steady while the hip flexors do the pulling.

Heart openers stretch across the shoulders and the chest, while opening the hip flexors.

Simply leaning into the lunge is great because it stretches the hip flexor, quadriceps and lower abs on the kneeling side while releasing hip flexor tension and working on ankle mobility on the other side.

It's tough to work the lower body from a seated position, but ball taps are a dynamic way to get blood flowing to your hips and thighs while focusing attention on the hip flexors and the quads.

And when you're doing cardio, keeping your stomach tight during knee - highs will strengthen your core while you're burning fat and strengthening your hip flexors.

Frame's Bend it Like Barbie class has «touching your toes» as a main aim, with a focus on making hip flexors, hamstrings, shoulders and spine more supple (even building up to splits in time if you keep at it), while Barrecore holds Stretch classes at its locations nationwide to aid fascial release, elongate muscles and increase flexibility.

I believe that always moving with a flat back (while strengthening the spine) also can create excessive tension in the hip flexors and does not always teach students the power of the articulation of the spine or the joints of the LE.

It's an effective way to target the rectus abdominis, the external obliques, internal obliques, and hip flexors, all while improving core and trunk balance.

The adductor magnus has a large hip extensor muscle moment arm, making it an unappreciated hip extensor, while the other adductors are hip flexors.

The rectus abdominis is the primary spinal flexor owing to its attachments that extend across the middle of the abdomen, while the external oblique is the primary spinal rotator and lateral flexor.

However, as the moment arm length rises drastically as the arm is elevated in the sagittal plane from 25 degrees upwards, we can tentatively conclude the clavicular head functions as a shoulder flexor in the scapular plane while the arm is moving from at least horizontal to 120 degrees (arms above head).

In a bit I am going to show you another exercise to try that actually stretches my hip flexor even better while activating the glutes at the same time.

The benefits of this pose include improved flexibility of hip flexors and quads, while creating controlled activation of glutes to help realign the pelvic position.

While it is easier to remember the hamstrings, calves and quads, we should also take the time to lengthen and loosen our hip flexors.

Sprint running ability seems to be mainly determined by the ability of the hamstrings to absorb energy at long muscle lengths, and of the hip extensors (gluteus maximus, adductor magnus, and hamstrings) and hip flexors to perform concentric work at high velocities while operating at short muscle lengths, all in a horizontal direction.

Keuchle et al. (1997) show that the anterior displays an average muscle moment arm of 21.0 mm while the middle deltoid displays an average muscle moment arm of 23.5 mm, indicating that both segments function as shoulder flexors.

There are some additional tools which help use the cards in the Instructional Design process: I use the cards as a «mind - flexor» while thinking about the learning process.