Sentences with phrase «lift using the legs»

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Tell Me What to Do: In Pure Barre, you become a «trained listener» for instructions: «lift your leg, turn out to open your hip, tuck your hips under...» It is so helpful when teachers use the same familiar language in very specific ways to direct what they want.

I love a good bootie, which I can get a lot of use out of in San Francisco while walking the hills and still getting a little lift with a heel to dress up my many pairs of leggings.

There was a lot to process in the immediate aftermath of Game 2 in Washington — the Blue Jackets» run at franchise history, the Capitals» crisis of confidence and the offside review that held up the full celebration — but both the national and local announcers caught the skill that it took Matt Calvert to make his one - handed game - winner possible, walling off a defender with his free hand and using his plant leg for stick leverage to lift the puck into the top corner.

Despite lifting batting average to.284 last Reds week, he's had a miserable year and could use time to heal; a sore left hip flexor is latest in string of leg injuries that has limited him to 51 games and seven home runs.

Your baby will lift his head and use his arms and legs to reposition himself until he finds the nipple.

If you're using all in one diapers or pocket diapers, pull the soiled diaper out completely by lifting baby's legs gently in the air.

You can create a bassinet like environment by lifting up the leg rest and using two pieces of material hidden underneath the leg rest to enclose the sides of the stroller.

With lift up access, and a detailed double - frill along the neckline, this versatile piece can be dressed up for a dinner date, or paired with jeans or leggings for everyday use.

It can also provide a bassinet type of environment for your little one by lifting the leg rest up and using the hidden material under the leg rest to enclose the sides of the stroller.

The Round Neck Belle Nursing Top with 3/4 length sleeves with lift up access, and a detailed double - frill along the neckline, is a piece that can be dressed up for a dinner date, or paired with jeans or leggings for everyday use.

Moreover, the baby is also likely to start kicking his legs, lifting his chest off the ground using his shoulder and arching his back and even lifting his head.

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While most ground - dwelling mammals simply use their tail for balance, kangaroos can firmly place theirs down on the ground and lift their body up and away, allowing them to swing their back legs forward while they support their weight on their front legs and tail.

Hug one knee into your chest and use the strength of your core to lift your other leg off the floor, drawing both knees into your chest.

Do it right: During this exercise, keep your leg straight and glute contracted as you want to focus on using your glute to lift your leg.

You can also use the leg curl machine to work the tibialis by hooking your toes under the pads and lifting your toes toward your shins.

Start lying on your back and use your abdominals to lift your legs overhead into a plow pose.

Use your abdominals to lift your legs up to the sky and place your hands on your lower back for support.

You'll want to lift your right knee and your right arm at the same time, as shown, balancing on your left leg, using your core to stabilize yourself.

The best tip I learned was to use a strap around the lifted leg and inch my hand overhead closer toward my foot slowly, while using a wall for support with the extended arm for balancing, focusing on one thing at a time instead of many.

Learning to use your deep core to lift your legs is important.

What do you think will help you build more strength and mass and where can you use bigger amount of weight — leg extensions or squats, bench presses or dumbbell flies, a biceps curl or a chin up where you lift your own body weight?

Using the strap, lift your leg until you feel a stretch behind your knee and thigh.

Use your core strength to then lift your legs back up to center and over to the other side, going down as far as you can.

Using your core, and keeping your chin and chest lifted, draw your legs up straight and bring your arms in front of you.

Moving through arm exercises using small hand weights, we found our way to the barre, where we pulsed through plies, tendus, leg lifts, jumps, ball squeezes and arabesques until the whole class was quivering around on shaky legs like human jellies.

In addition to regularly using a foam roller to stretch the IT band, runners should also start a strength routine that includes exercises such as single - leg balance moves, side leg lifts and clamshells.

Then lift one leg up high, while bringing hips down close to ground using tricep muscles.

Use the power from your legs to help you lift the kettlebell overhead.

Use your lower abs to draw your hips up and back into the starting position of Downward dog (7), lifting your right leg high.

Lift your other leg and hinge forward into a SL Deadlift, using the form tips above.

You will still get the benefit of using gravity to your advantage by doing the lateral leg lifts from the floor.

Lift your back foot off the ground and bring your heel toward your glutes, then drive through the heel of the standing leg and fully extend the hips and knee to stand up, using only your front leg.

Focus on lifting this leg from your butt (leg must stay straight or you are not using your butt).

A stronger core inevitably leads to bigger lifts, and by the way, you can have all the leg strength in the world but without a stable core you won't be able to use it efficiently.

Use your lower abdominals to lift your legs straight up overhead, lifting your hips up high.

Using your glutes, come up to standing on your right leg and lift your left leg straight out to the side (e).

The most common argument weight lifters use against calisthenics training is that calisthenics athletes have skinny legs.

But again, make sure you are using your butt to lift your legs, not the momentum.

The best way to approach the exercise is to think as if you were leg pressing the floor as opposed to using your upper body to lift something.

The Olympic Jerk is a type of overhead press with an explosive first lift, using a ultra strong leg drive to power the weight up overhead by force of momentum from the legs and hips.

Passing Ball with Swiss ball — Use any inflatable type ball or do Leg Lift Toe Touch (lift both legs up together and then reach up to touch toes) or One Leg Toe ToLift Toe Touch (lift both legs up together and then reach up to touch toes) or One Leg Toe Tolift both legs up together and then reach up to touch toes) or One Leg Toe Touch.

Press hands and arms into the ground as you use the strength of your abs to lift legs straight up towards the ceiling.

You can lift more weight using the push press than using the military press because of the initial leg drive.

Then sit up, bending one leg under you and put other foot on ground, using the strength of that leg lift yourself up — try to not use hands for support, and get up to standing.

The weight lifter can use a split leg stance at the top of the Olympic jerk, with one leg forward and the other back, or they can use both legs together a shoulder width apart as in a regular push press stance.

Using your forearms as support, slightly twist your body and lift one of your legs off the roller so that just one leg is resting on it.

When you come to standing, use your core muscles to lift the back leg off the floor and extend it behind you, squeezing the glutes as you perform the tricep kickback.

Once you become familiar with these basic bodyweight exercises, your short term goal should be to correctly perform a minimum of 5 push ups, 5 pull ups / chin ups (if pull up bar available), 5 squats, 5 dips (use chairs, dip bars or your power tower if available) and 5 leg lifts or raises.

You won't just be lifting with one arm or one leg, you'll be using your upper body, lower body, and especially your core for the majority of the lifts.