Sentences with phrase «of stiff legs»

Muscle stiffness in the form of stiff legs or clenched fists may also be seen.

A modification of the Stiff Legged Deadlift is the Single Leg Deadlift.

Not exact matches

«He ran kind of stiff - legged all year,» says Chicago Bear coach Mike Ditka, «and he ran for more than 1,400 yards.

The picture of them lingers in his mind — two ladies standing stiff and gaunt - legged as blue herons, shrilling with glee as they slide to shore — and it has confounded Keki ever since that hundreds of thousands of tourists never try the sport.

I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no - good, rotten, four - flushing, low - life, snake - licking, dirt - eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood - sucking, dog - kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat - ass, bug - eyed, stiff - legged, spotty - lipped, worm - headed sack of monkey shit he is!

REACTIVE ABILITY: In order to react quickly with a powerful push - off, the athlete needs to learn to be stiff through the muscle and tendons of the legs.

This loads the leg by rapidly forcing its muscles to stretch and undergo rapid eccentric contraction (Just think of compressing the coils of a strong and stiff spring).

Not just for active gals, Lucky Legs has done wonders for reviving my stiff legs after a long day of sitting at the compuLegs has done wonders for reviving my stiff legs after a long day of sitting at the compulegs after a long day of sitting at the computer.

Big fluffy comforters can be stiff and easily moved with a baby's normal habit of kicking their legs.

Massage relieves many of the normal discomforts experienced during pregnancy, such as encourages blood and lymph circulation and reduces backaches, stiff neck, headaches, leg cramps and edema (or swelling).

In 2000, Mariano Garcia, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Anindya Chatterjee, a mechanical engineer at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, published a paper showing that a simplified walker with stiff legs and no torso had no gait that did not involve losing some energy when its legs hit the ground.

In 75 percent of these cases the animals maintained balance with their hands, and over 90 percent of the time their legs were stiff, unlike the bent - knee, bent - hip shuffle of chimps and gorillas, which also stand upright in trees sometimes.

Shivering, stiff arms and legs and poor coordination are typical symptoms of Parkinson's.

These 15 individuals comprise ten females and five males, and all have intellectual disability with delayed speech, a history of febrile and / or non-febrile seizures, and a wide - based, spastic, and / or stiff - legged gait.

For the lower back, Lee recommends doing three to four stiff - leg deadlifts of eight to ten reps on the hamstrings / glutes day.

Squats, regular stance — 4 warm up sets, then 1 X 10 - 12 reps and 1 x 15 reps Narrow stance leg press — 4 sets of 8 reps Stiff leg deadlifts — 4 sets of 10 reps Standing calf raises — 3 warm up sets, 2 sets to failure

Sitting in the car can lead to lower backaches and stiff legs, so it's important to get out of the car and move your body restoring blood flow.

For Stiff - Legged Deadlifts only perform a «heavy» day on the first training day of the week - on the other two days have «light» days for Stiff - Legged Deadlifts (again, using about 70 % of your «heavy» day weights).

Exercises like flyes, stiff - legged deadlifts, dumbbell presses, and chin - ups stretch the muscle in the bottom range of the movement.

But, with the Stiff Legged Deadlift, you focus on the upper part of your legs.

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

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It's the top 1/4 of the Stiff - Legged Deadlift movement, done in the power rack but with a very important focus... instead of focusing on the hamstrings, you'll instead be pulling your back into a highly - contracted position THEN performing the movement.

This is (Dennis, at age 61) doing reps of stiff - legged deadlift partials with 405 pounds in the basement gym at home.

Examples of hip dominant exercises are single leg deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts and reverse lunges.

• Perform 20 + total reps of single leg work per week → Single leg squats, step ups, single leg stiff legged deadlift, walking lunges, split squats, or rear foot elevated split squats

Bezerra et al. (2013) compared the conventional deadlift and the stiff - legged (Romanian) deadlift variations, using 70 % of 1RM.

They reported that medial gastrocnemius muscle activity was superior when performing the stiff - legged deadlift compared to the conventional deadlift, although the actual difference was very small (108 vs. 104 % of MVIC).

Between sets I work my hamstrings: standing leg curls and stiff - legged deadlifts as well as half - range - of - motion leg presses, really squeezing at the top.

Many coaches understand this and program a steady diet of stiff - legged deadlifts, unilateral hip hinge training, hamstring curls, and more.

Weight training: The basic exercises that include the largest muscle groups or even call into play the entire body as a unit (squats, front squats, split squats, deadlifts, stiff legged deadlifts, overhead presses, all kinds of rows and core - activation exercises) will have a much greater metabolism stimulating effect than isolation exercises (concentration curls, calf raises, etc)

The data showed comparing the band versions to the conventional versions, minimal lower activation for the band version of the lateral pulldown and unilateral row, somewhat lower activation for the stiff - legged deadlift, and much lower activation for the squat.

Maybe just reduce the sets of DB Stiff - Legged Deadlifts to 3 sets instead of 4.

The Stiff - Legged Deadlift is an important exercise for working the hip extension function of the hamstrings, but can be tricky to learn proper form.

If you find you STILL can't get it, another trick I like to use is to do a set of stiff - legged deadlifts right before squatting... not heavy, but just enough to «wake up» the hamstrings and get them activated so they're easier to feel in this squat movement (you could potentially even do a light set of leg curls if you also can't feel your hams during Stiff - Legged Deadlifts, stiff - legged deadlifts right before squatting... not heavy, but just enough to «wake up» the hamstrings and get them activated so they're easier to feel in this squat movement (you could potentially even do a light set of leg curls if you also can't feel your hams during Stiff - Legged Deadlifts,legged deadlifts right before squatting... not heavy, but just enough to «wake up» the hamstrings and get them activated so they're easier to feel in this squat movement (you could potentially even do a light set of leg curls if you also can't feel your hams during Stiff - Legged Deadlifts, Stiff - Legged Deadlifts,Legged Deadlifts, too).

The stiff - legged deadlift is one of the best exercises you can do for your hamstrings.

There are also a few variations of ways to do the deadlift like the traditional method, sumo style, with a trap bar and stiff legged.

my favorites are stiff legged dead lifts and single leg DB lifts off of upside down BOSU OR with DB under heel..

I do a lot of heavy deadlifts but now i tend to just stick with stiff leg deadlifts which feel better.

Squats, leg presses, lunges, stiff - legged deadlifts... Did you ever notice how incredibly challenging and downright gut wrenching these exercises can be when performed to a high level of intensity?

The romanian or stiff leg deadlift is more of a supplementary exercise.

I had very wild swings and my glucose from 90 to 270... the edema went away in two days... However, I'm experiencing numbness and a feeling of like extra tissue between the two pads of my foot... My leg and foot are somewhat stiff even though there are no signs of Edema.

Ono et al. (2011) assessed hamstrings EMG amplitude during a stiff - legged deadlift and reported that the EMG amplitudes of the biceps femoris and of the semimembranosus were significantly higher than that of the semitendinosus.

Schoenfeld et al. (2015) explored the EMG amplitude of the proximal (upper) and distal (lower) regions of the medial and lateral hamstrings during the stiff - legged deadlift and the lying leg curl exercises in resistance - trained males.

Day 5 — Legs Hypertrophy Full Squats — 5 sets of 8 — 12 Paramount Squat — 3 sets of 8 — 12 Stiff Legged Dead Lifts — 5 sets of 8 — 12 Single Leg Lying Curls — 3 sets of 8 — 12 Standing Barbell Calf Raises — 5 sets of 8 — 12

FIRST incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 flat bench dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - arm pulldown 1 x 15 - 20 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 one dumbbell pullover drop set of 3 x 8 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 pushdown with rope handle 1 x 15 - 20 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 seated overhead (one - arm) extension drop set 3 x 8 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 ab - bench crunch 1 x 15 - 20 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 SECOND [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 standing forward - lean lateral raise 1 x 15 - 20 [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell (two - arm) press drop set 3 x 8 incline one - arm dumbbell lateral 1 x 8 bent - over dumbbell lateral drop set 3 x 8 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 seated bent - arm bent - over dumbbell lateral 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 one - arm dumbbell row 1 x 8 - 10 barbell shrug [wrist straps or hooks are fine] 1 x 15 - 20 standing dumbbell curl w arm - blaster 1 x 8 - 10 spider curl with E-Z curl bar 1 x 15 - 20 cable curl with straight bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline (two - arm) curl drop set 3 x 8 incline (two - arm) hammer curl drop set 3 x 8 rotator cuff with ShoulderHorn and dumbbells 1 x 8 - 10 hang from chinning bar'til failure THIRD front squat 1 x 6 - 8 leg extension 1 x 15 - 20 front squat 1 x 6 - 8 sissy squat 1 x 8 - 10 supine leg curl 1 x 15 - 20 leg press on angled leg press 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - legged deadlift 1 x 8 - 10 immediately followed by back extension 1 x 30 - 50 (no weight) 5 minute rest leg press calf raise 1 x 20 leg press calf raise 1 x 15 standing calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 D.A.R.D raise 1 x 8 - 10 4 - way neck work with towel — 1 15 - second rep for each of the 4 ways TIPS for using this program in your weight lifting routines:

Therefore, stiff - legs should «count» as a deadlift movement when you create your routine, or when you follow one of the templates in the next section.

You can think of the movement like a stiff - leg deadlift.

Our Move of the Week, the Stiff - Legged Dead Lift, helps strengthen the hamstrings, glutes, and gives the arms a light workout.