Sentences with phrase «lower your legs toward»

Extend your right leg straight back, reaching your lower leg toward your left side.

Flex your feet, then lower your legs toward the ground while keeping them as straight as possible.

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Slowly lower the other leg down toward the floor, feeling a gentle stretch in your hamstring.

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.

Raise your right leg to hip height, then lower it back toward the ground 12 times.

Raise your left leg straight toward the ceiling and lift and lower your hips 12 times, peeling your lower back off the ground each time your hips raise up.

Exhale as you lower your upper body down to the floor and raise your legs straight up so your feet point toward the ceiling (your body should form a 90 - degree angle).

Lower your right knee toward the floor until you reach a 90 - degree angle in both of your legs.

Keep lower back long and lift through chest as you lower legs a little more toward the floor, gazing forward and keeping arms parallel.

I know your standing leg is probably burning by now, but stay with it as you lower both your hands toward the floor.

Lower one leg toward the floor as you pull the other leg toward your face (b).

Inhale as you lower both your upper and lower body slowly toward the floor; pause with torso and legs still slightly lifted.

Hinge from the top of the legs and lower into a flat back, letting arms extended down toward the ground, thumbs facing each other.

Continue crunching up to sitting as you lower legs to the floor and reach left hand across body toward right little toe (C).

As you inhale, draw your belly button toward the spine and engage your lower abs, then extend your right arm and left leg and lift them off the floor until they form a straight line with the rest of your body, keeping the spine neutral.

Straighten your right leg and lower your left shoulder, as you rotate and bring your left knee inward and your right shoulder up and toward your knee (c).

Bring your knees back into your chest and repeat for 10 reps. Pro tip: Intensify this exercise by keeping your knees straight as you lift your legs and as you lower them, slowly drop your upper body back toward the floor as well.

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

Gaze toward your right hand, and begin to lower your legs to the left, stopping as soon as your right shoulder begins to lift off the ground.

Keep your legs active, and imagine pushing your right lower ribs toward the mat.

Gently hug the leg muscles toward the bones so that your lower body feels firm plus energized.

Feel free to express yourself by joining the soles of the feet, or by lowering one leg at a time toward the floor.

After you get a feel for this tucked position with your hips up, you can try to extend one leg and slowly begin to lower your body down toward a horizontal position.

The takeaway is that if the hip abductors — the muscles that move the lower leg sideways away from the body, and the hip flexors — the muscles that move the lower leg in toward the body — are weak, the knee doesn't track as well as it should.

As you lower your left leg back toward the ground and bring your chest up, pull the kettlebell swiftly up toward your chest.

At the same time, raise your left leg behind you and lower the kettlebell toward the floor (b).

When the feet pronate, the ankles should also roll in, which helps rotate the lower leg, knee and thigh toward the midline of the body.

Bend your knees, tilt your tailbone up to the sky, lower your heels toward the floor and straighten your legs.

More challenging in this shape than straightening the lifted leg is broadening the collarbones, supporting the low back with a strong belly and shining the heart up toward the ceiling.

Keep your balance and rotate your lower leg in toward the midline of your body as far as you can.

With the knee of your working leg pointing toward the ground, slowly lower yourself until that knee just touches the floor, and then come back.

From here, lower one leg until your heel just about touches the floor while also lowering your opposite arm toward the floor above your head (b).

To learn how to isolate and target the lower glutes, hamstrings, and adductor magnus, stand near a wall for balance, rotate one leg far inward, and then, keeping the knee straight, lift the foot off the floor and move it back a little so its toes point toward the opposite heel.

Slowly increase flexibility and strength in the legs, knees, and hips by holding onto something with your hands as you lower yourself down into a squat, and squatting down toward something that you can sit on (cushions, a bench, a step - stool, etc.).

Slowly lower both flexed legs toward the floor, and once they get about six inches from the floor, slowly raise them back up to starting position.

Lean your torso forward and lower it toward parallel to the floor; at the same time, straighten your knees and extend your legs out to the right, parallel to the floor (and perpendicular to your torso).

Lower one leg slowly toward the floor.

The toepan, parking brake and brake pedal were pushed back 10 - 13 inches toward the dummy, and the dashboard was jammed against its lower legs.