Sentences with phrase «focus on bending the knee»

To work them in isolation you would focus on bending the knee, but the hamstrings also work with the glutes to extend (straighten) the hip.

Not exact matches

In a study appearing today in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)(a research summary was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeonsin March), researchers found that universal neuromuscular training for high school and college - age athletes — which focuses on the optimal way to bend, jump, land and pivot the knee — is an effective and inexpensive way to avoid ACL sprains and tears.

In other words, bend one knee then the other, to focus on stretching your hamstrings and calves.

To focus on a specific spot, stop rolling when you feel a tender spot and then bend knee at a 90 - degree angle, and then straighten it.

Here's how to do it: Stand with your feet together, bend your knees enough to connect to those inner thigh muscles, stretch your arms out to your side, take one arm and cross it over the other and press the palms together, bend your knees a little deeper now and take the opposite leg and squeeze it tight so those inner thighs are wrapped together, if you can wrap your leg around the bottom ankle do so, keep squeezing those inner thighs the whole time to help you control this move, find that focus and take a deep breath in, come up to stand and repeat it on the other side.

While the leg press focuses on the quads, as a result of bending your knees further, hack squats target the lower quads.

Focus on keeping your left leg relatively straight with a slight bend in the knee, maintaining your balance and keeping your ribcage down.

If that doesn't work skip the move all together and focus on # 7, working on keeping the bent knee over the ankle.

In the YogAlign method, which is a style I created to focus on good postural alignment rather than pose alignment, all practitioners bend the knees deeply in forward bending.

Now do a deadlift movement but keep the knees fairly bent and focus primarily on straightening at the hips rather than the knees (you'll want to keep your knees bent throughout the movement).

Now bring the knees up and in front, focusing on bending at the middle of the body rather than the hips.