Sentences with phrase «muscles keep you upright»

Not exact matches

Beef is considered «red meat» because the animal's muscles need so much oxygen as they work keeping the cow upright and moving it around.

A preemie often does not have the muscle control needed to keep the head upright or to move it if he or she is having trouble breathing.

But the muscle can't keep apes in an upright stance for long — apes quickly tire of standing.

Try not to rely on the back of the chair to keep your torso upright; use your back and abdominal muscles instead.

While the act of paddling taps your shoulders, back, and core, the muscles in your legs (including your smaller stabilizer muscles that are usually inactive) have to pull major overtime to keep you upright and stable when paddleboarding, especially on turbulent waters.

Your center of gravity is shifting forward with your growing breasts and abdomen and your muscles need to counter - act to keep you upright.

That being said, a narrow grip with an upright torso will keep most of the focus on the triceps, but a wider grip with the weight shifted forward will target your chest muscles and help you achieve massive growth.

First of all, your forearms are trying to keep the weight in your hands as well as trying to direct it, then the back muscles are constantly under tension, keeping you upright and keeping your shoulders in place and preventing them from being ripped off from their sockets, your abdominal muscles are trying to stabilize your core so that your spine doesn't snap in half.

By leaning the torso forward and letting your elbows flair out to the sides, you can force the chest muscles to take over the work, while remaining upright and keeping the elbows tucked will better target the triceps.

Remember that where your weight shifts changes what muscles will fire and work to support you, so to really protect your joints and maximize the work in the glutes keep your weight back and stay upright.

Your glutes (butt muscles) are super important muscles that stabilize your hips and legs and help keep you upright.

Postural muscles are anti-gravity muscles, responsible for keeping the body upright.

Here are five foot - strengthening exercises — including four from Egoscue's book Pain Free — that help counteract the dysfunctional loading of our feet, restore them to their proper alignment, and strengthen the muscles helping to keep you upright.

It functions in extending (bending back) the spine as well as being an essential postural muscle keeping the spine upright.

Additionally, when you're doing front weight - bearing moves (squatting holding a kettlebell at your chest or swings, for example), those back muscles are going to be engaged to keep you upright.

Try the towel chest stretch to keep your posture upright and to maintain flexibility in your chest muscles.

Those internal muscles are what is going to keep you upright and help you power through everything from running to kickboxing.

A few other factors contribute to APT - first is scapular protraction / strong pressing muscles combined with weaker scapular retraction, which forces even more lower back arch to keep the torso more or less upright and head over the hips.

Another bane of slouch sitting in chairs happens because we lose the tone of our core postural muscles, since the back of the chair does the work of keeping the spine upright.

For example, the horizontal position works better then vertical, both because the angle of gravitational pull changes and because the deep muscles that normally work hard to keep the spine upright can relax.

The Abdominal muscles (Rectus Abdominus) are responsible for keeping you upright and stable when you move, they assist your spine in flexing and also supporting the spine through stabilising the pelvis.

Breathing easily was a joke, as all my muscles tightened around my skeleton just to keep me upright.

This can lead to excessive muscle tension in the neck and shoulders, and also make the lower back work harder as it tries to arch backward to keep the head and shoulders upright.

Your core consists of all the muscles around your mid section and plays a big part in keeping you upright but just because you are able to stand up straight does n`t necessarily mean you have good core strength.

You must keep the torso upright and as you move forward, keep the pressure directed into the hip flexor muscles themselves.

Exercise promotes strong and flexible muscles that keep you upright in a proper postural position.

Your skeletal muscles function almost continuously to maintain your posture, making one tiny adjustment after another to keep your body upright.

The upright frame hits the muscles in a way that wasn't condusive to racing to keep up with Mike, even as a seasoned commuter biker.

You know how it is almost impossible to keep your laptop upright in bed without getting some kind of muscle cramp?