Sentences with phrase «lower leg bent»

It is important to keep your lower leg bent to act as a support to resist rolling front or back.

Not exact matches

With your back against a wall, lower yourself so your upper legs are parallel with the floor and your knees are bent at a 90 - degree angle.

One second the game was everything fans and media wanted it to be — the best two teams left in the bracket, playing within one point of each other at 21 — 20, the early makings of a classic — and the next second a player was staring in shock at the lower half of his right leg, which was bent at an impossible angle.

Some moms have complained that the low ride prevents older children from being as comfortable as a young toddler, since they will have to bend their legs to keep from dragging.

Hold her lower legs and bend her knees toward her belly to help push out air, then move her legs in and out in a circular motion to keep the air in her tummy moving up.

Meaning, their lower legs have an exaggerated outward bend.

To help ease lower back pain, place the pillow between your legs and bend your knees.

You can also place her on her tummy over the lower part of your leg, knees bent under her in a sort of kneeling position so her chest rests on your leg and encourage her to put her hands down on the floor to bear weight on them.

To quantitatively test these questions, the team performed micro-CT scans of 12 fossil horse species then used engineering «beam bending» analysis to calculate how much stress each species» lower leg bones were experiencing during normal movement and high - speed running.

From here, lower down just one inch by bending the legs just a little deeper.

To come out of the pose, slowly bend your right knee and lower your left leg to the ground.

Step backward with your right leg and slowly lower your body until your front knee is bent at least 90 degrees.

Without moving your feet, lower your rear leg until the knee almost touches he floor while bending your front leg.

From here, keep your right leg bent and raise it to hip height to the side of your body, then lower it back down to the mat.

Keeping your chest up, bend your elbows to lower your body as far as your shoulders will allow, legs extended in front of you.

Shift weight onto one leg, lower dumbbells down, keeping a slight bend in the stationary leg, while kicking alternate leg back.

Step your left leg forward and lower your body into a lunge until both knees are bent at 90 degrees.

For (lower body) legs and glutes, I like to do a hip - bending and a knee - bending motion back - to - back.

Take a big step forward with your right leg, and lower your body down to the ground, bending your right knee to form a 90 - degree angle to the floor (b).

Additionally, during a classic bent - over barbell row, a big majority of lifters are forced to drop the barbell because of the built - up fatigue in their lower back and leg muscles, not because the lats and mid-back muscles have reached their limit.

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.

Lower the left leg diagonally while bending your knee and curl the dumbbells upwards.

Standing with your back to a chair, lower your body by bending your legs and place your hands on the seat of the chair for support.

As you start to lower yourself, bend one leg and bring your knee up to your elbow.

Start in a low lunge position with your right leg in the forward position, get the left leg back while keeping the foot flat, afterward bend the right leg and square the hips.

Slowly bend the knees and lower your legs until your thighs are parallel to the floor.

B. Breathing in, bend at waist keeping back straight and knees stable as you lower dumbbells over your legs toward your feet.

Scoop your lower abs in and lift your arms and float your legs up so your knees stay bent and your shins are parallel to the ground.

Lie on your back with knees bent 90 degrees in a tabletop position, with your lower legs resting on a block or chair.

Stand in middle of dip station and grasp handles, then straighten arms lifting yourself up off the floor, then bend legs bringing knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower legs down to standing.

Sample Exercise Setup: Chest — 3 exercises, 1 incline, 1 flat and 1 decline Back — 4 exercises, 1 wide chin up or latt pull, 1 row, 1 pulley or machine row, Deads or pullovers (alternate between these two) Delts — 3 exercises, overhead press, side laterals, bent laterals Triceps — 3 exercises, overhead tricep extension with bar or dumbbell, cable pressdown, machine dip Biceps — 3 exercises, preacher curl, barbell or dumbbell curl, cable curl Quads — 3 exercises, press of some kind, extension, hack or press or squat of some kind Hams — 1 exercise, leg curl Calves — 3 exercises, standing calf raise, bent lower back calf raise (like donkey calf raises where your upper body and lower body are in an «L» shape), seated calf raises Abs - 3 exercises, weighted machine crunch, hanging leg lifts, cable reverse crunches Traps — 1 exercise, shrugs

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.

The knee joint forms at the intersection of four bones, the femur (your thigh bone), the tibia and fibula (the two bones of your lower leg) and the patella, (your kneecap) which slides over the top of the joint as you bend your knee.

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

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.

Lift straight or bent legs up to the right, lower back down, then lift your legs to the left.

Stand with your feet shoulder - width apart, bend your knees slightly — not as low as a squat — swing your arms back and up as you straighten your legs and jump.

On the back of your leg your hamstrings run behind the knee and attach to the two bones of the lower leg, your tibia and fibula and are responsible for bending your knee.

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.

With one leg forward and one leg back, bend down so your knees hit 90 degrees, which targets your lower half.

On an exhale, bend your elbows coming into Low Plank Pose (or Chaturanga Dandasana) with Tree Legs.

A quick tip for this abdominal exercise is to keep your knees bent throughout to take some pressure off your lower back (versus keeping your legs straight as you lift them).

This would preclude the use of low cable rows, unsupported t - bars, bent over rows, stiff - legged deads, etc..

In the full expression of the pose, the heel of the folded leg will press strongly into your lower abdomen when bending forward.

Crunches: Lie down flat on your back, with knees bent and your lower legs supported on a flat bench.

If necessary, bend the extended leg to help release the lower back.

The method of progression is simple enough; the first stage is the hanging leg tuck or put simply slowly bending your legs and lifting them so that your thighs are at 90 degrees and then holding the position for a couple of seconds before slowly lowering them back down.

If the soleus muscle is injured the pain is usually lower down the leg but is not painful when attempting to bend the knee (unlike gastrocnemius).

As you lower the weight, bend the leg to no more than 90 degrees to finish your rep, then begin to straighten again as you lift into your next rep.

Try to maintain the balance and slowly bend the left leg and lower the body until the right toes touch the ground.