Sentences with phrase «knee muscles contract»

One of my favorites to train hip and knee stabilization is the Single Leg Standing Isometric where you add band tension around the working leg making the hip and knee muscles contract and work harder to maintain a stable position.

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This tap will pull on your thigh muscle, elongating stretch receptors embedded there, which in turn will excite a motor neuron in your spinal cord that will stimulate your thigh muscle to quickly contract, extending your leg below the knee in the famous knee - jerk reflex.

Tip: Exhale at each point the knee reaches the opposite arm's elbow to contract the abdominal muscles.

Contract your abdominal muscles and keep your knees soft.

Contract your abdominal muscles by lifting your torso toward your knees.

This uses fast - twitch muscle fibers (the ones that contract during high - intensity moves and help improve muscle tone) Sit with knees bent and feet on floor.

When you sit, your hip flexors, the muscles that lift your knees and help you bend at the waist, become contracted and shortened.

Making them as straight as you can without locking your knees keeps your muscles contracted, forcing them to work even harder so you don't have to spend as much time trying to exhaust them.

Then put your legs in a position as if you are pedaling on a bicycle by bringing the knees near your chest and keeping your abs muscle contracted.

In the Nordic hamstring curl, the lifter lowers themselves forwards to the ground by extending the knee, slowing their descent by trying to contract the hamstrings muscles.

Movement: Contract your abdominal muscles as though you are doing a crunch, but slowly twist your torso and move your right elbow towards your left knee.

When an agonist muscle contracts (for example the quads, causing knee extension), the antagonist muscle is inhibited, causing it to relax (in this example the hamstrings), allowing the full movement of the antagonist muscle (knee extension).

With arms at your side or crossed over your chest, contract your stomach muscles to bring your chest up towards your knees.

Be careful with the top knee if you do not contract your adductors (inner thigh) muscles enough you can strain your MCL in your knee.