Sentences with phrase «legs by bending the knees»

In it you utilize the complete range of motion of the legs by bending the knees fully until the pelvis is resting at the back of the heels.

Breathe out and lift one leg by bending your knee and leaning back.

Not exact matches

Help them bend and straighten their knees by applying pressure to their legs with your lap.

Pull the ball towards your chest by slowly bending your knees, then slowly return to the start position by straightening your legs.

From a seated position, engage your core to lift your legs and bend your knees, reaching your arms long by either side.

- Wake up your legs by straightening and bending them at your knees, flexing and pointing through your feet, and circling the ankles.

If the straight leg raise proves to be too hard for you at the moment, modify the movement by bending the knees until you develop more strength in the lower body.

Starting off with the right knee bent back in half of Virasana, lift the leg by pulling the head of the thigh bone into the hip socket and activating the pelvic floor.

Swivel your right leg under your body and bend it so that you are now supported by your right knee, left foot and right hand.

Keeping the right leg straight, lower yourself down into a squat by moving all the weight on the left side and bending the left knee.

Alternatively you can build a ton of strength in your lower abdominals in preparation for the straight leg lift by bending your knees and raising them up and down to either side.

If you have trouble balancing in Vrksasana, try lowering your center of gravity by practicing the pose with your standing - leg knee slightly bent and the arms in a lower position.

As stated above this is a very difficult exercise and what adds to the difficulty is there are not many options for methods of progression, however, the technique I used was to bend my legs at the knees and therefore considerably reduce the leverage offered by the legs.

Bring your arms straight up as you rise into a squat with your right leg bent at a 90 ° angle for Warrior I. Stack the joints by bringing the knee directly above the ankle.

You can do this by first bending at the knees and then straightening out your legs by actively using your leg strength.

He's doing that by keeping his right hip down and instead of hiking his hip up, he is bringing his thigh up by allowing a deep crease where his leg and pelvis meet (for a better view of the hip flexion, see pilates knee folds), and bending his knee.

Technique: Hold yourself up on bars, arms fully extended, bend knees and cross your legs at the ankle, lower your body by bending shoulders and elbows down as far as you can, pause, then press back up to arms» length.

By bending the knees, you put the pressure on your legs and start moving the rod towards and from the chest.

With each breath, come into the pose more deeply by gradually increasing the bend of the right leg to align the knee with the tips of the toes.

You can also increase the intensity by lifting the legs laterally without bending the knees.

You can keep your left knee bent with the foot on the floor, or straighten your left leg by pushing out through the heel.

Slowly lower your body vertically by bending the rear leg and go as low as you can go, ideally until your back knee is just off the floor.

Keeping your abs tight and back straight take a large step forward and sink down into a lunge by bending both your knees until your front thigh is parallel with the floor and the shin of your rear leg is parallel to the floor.

To begin the glut kickback, slowly lift one leg back, keeping your knee bent, until the sole of your foot faces the ceiling and your thigh is parallel to the floor.You can target the upper glute muscle by raising your leg higher or the lower glute muscle by keeping your leg at less than parallel to the floor.

Rocking Lunge — Begin this warmup by taking a deep lunge bringing your left leg forward and both knees slightly bent as your starting position.

For this pain - relieving stretch, start by lying on your back with one leg straight and the other bent at the knee.

Reverse the motion by bending your leading knee and and hip and carefully stepping back with your leg.

Again, you can start with your knees bent but you want to work toward straight legs, and you can add weight by snatching a dumbbell in between your feet.

Konrad et al. (2001) compared a number of gymnastic exercises and found that the horizontal straight leg anchored side bend displayed the highest external oblique muscle activity, followed by the reverse curl up Escamilla et al. (2006) compared the power wheel roll out (power wheel in hands), jack knife and knee - tuck (power wheel attached to feet), the ab sling bent - leg hanging leg raise, the flat and decline reverse curl up, the anchored bent leg sit up, and bent leg curl up.

Now bend one knee and step the foot in, closer to the wall (we'll say it's the left leg), but keep the other (i.e. right) leg active by extending through the heel.

Now bend one knee and step the foot in, closer to the wall (let's say the left leg), but keep the other (i.e. right) leg active by extending through the heel.