Sentences with phrase «on front thigh»

Inhale and lift your arms up or place them on your front thigh.

Lay your torso on your front thigh and lengthen it forward.

On chair raise back leg + lift other knee — 10 reps each legs Another exercise for thighs that stress on back of the thigh, because previous exercise emphases on front thigh.

And the fourth principle, Outer Spiral: «The Outer Spiral is emphasized on the front thigh to bring the legs closer together and draw the tailbone forward,» he says.

From here you can do a beginner extension, resting your front forearm on the front thigh and reaching the top arm straight up to the sky.

How - to: From a low lunge, rest your opposite forearm on your front thigh and reach your other arm behind your back.

Not exact matches

• April / May 2014: Terdema sits next to me in the two chairs in front of his desk and as he is talking to me, he puts his hand on my left thigh, about halfway up the thigh.

It is certainly a welcome relief from our usual bad news on the injury front as Mikel Arteta (calf), Jack Wilshere (ankle), Aaron Ramsey (hamstring) and Laurent Koscielny (thigh) are all still unavailable, but at least Mesut Ozil has finally returned to training.....

The vertical snaps are nice because the front doesn't fold over like the single row used to... but the rise setting is JUST too small on the middle setting so it is really tight across her thighs and I can't get it tight enough across her back to contain the «mess.»

Tips: Keeping your lower ribs long rather than collapsing over your front leg is easier if you start by resting your front forearm on your thigh.

After rolling the front of your quad, your upper thigh should be resting on the foam roller.

Because not everyone is comfortable resting on the front side of the body, a 10 - pound sandbag can be placed across the back of the pelvis and another one across the upper back thighs to settle the pelvis into a neutral position.

Tips: The block can used on any of its height positions, depending on how open you feel in your spine and fronts of thighs.

For arms, do the «front double biceps», for your back, do the «back double biceps», for abs the «abdominal» and «thigh» pose and for the legs get yourself in the «front relaxed pose» and put pressure on the outer part of the foot.

Use a wider stance to ensure maximum emphasis on the glutes and go as low as possible, or until your rear knee nearly touches the floor and your front thigh is parallel to it.

Place your hands on the ground in front of you and walk them out until the ball rolls beneath your thighs (as shown above).

For more balance, place your left hand on your left thigh or on a wall in front of you.

Dumbbell upright row Grab a pair of dumbbells while standing and position them on the front of your thighs with your palms facing behind you.

Start with weights resting on the fronts of your thighs, palms facing you.

The quadriceps are the large muscles on the front of your thigh that straighten your knee when walking or standing.

To add weight you can hold dumbbells on the upper thighs, a single dumbbell in front or a barbell on the shoulders or behind the head.

Rectus femoris, for example, on the front of your thigh, is a postural muscle that helps you remain standing.

Because of the shift in center of gravity, ball squats will put slightly more emphasis on the front of the thigh (quads).

Almost every gym has a knee extension machine that isolates the quads (which are the muscles on the front of the thigh).

The outside part of the quadriceps actually starts on the back of the femur (thigh bone) and wraps around to the front of the thigh.

Most of the outer thigh is actually part of the quadriceps which are mostly on the front of the thigh.

An example is the relative strength of the hamstrings on the back of the thigh in comparison to the quadriceps on the front can be measured.

standing reverse lunges - lunge backwards bringing the front thigh down to parallel with the ground; knee should not go forward past toes and keep shin vertical; alternate legs mountain climbers - get down on hands and feet in pushup position; quickly bring one leg in so it's under chest; quickly switch to other leg; keep quickly switching legs so that it looks as if you were climbing a mountain mountain jumpers - get down on hands and feet in pushup position; quickly bring both legs in so they are under chest and immediately pop back out to starting position; keep quickly «jumping» both legs in so that it looks as if you were jumping, while on the ground.

And if your knee is acutely painful, you could sit on a chair with your front thigh supported by the chair seat.

Now it's also on the front of my thighs!

In the rear you have the gluteal group, in the front, the hip flexors, on the outside the abductors, and on the inner thigh, the adductor group.

From the full pose, lean forward and lay the front torso down on the inner top thigh.

In fact squats are much more effective at building your quads (the muscles on the front of your thighs) than your butt.

Some days we focused on shoulders, the back of her thighs, and the front of her midsection.

The plie squat also works the entire thigh (inner thigh, quads on the front and hamstrings on the back).

Standard (traditional) deadlifts use these same muscles but also involve the muscles on the front of your thighs — the quadriceps.

The quads or quadriceps femoris (Latin for «four - headed muscle of the femur»), also called simply the quadriceps, quadriceps extensor, or quads, is a large muscle group that includes the four prevailing muscles on the front of the thigh.

Emphasis is on the butt and the front of the thighs, but the back of the thighs and calf muscles also work.

The piriformis muscle originates on the anterior (front) surface of the sacrum and inserts onto the greater trochanter of the femur (thigh bone).

Aside from helping to prevent injuries, there's another reason: thanks to the good old 9 - 5 spent sitting on our tush, most people have weak glutes, tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings, which means if they dive straight into the exercises they don't target their glutes, but rather other muscles like the thighs (quadriceps in the front, adductors on the inside and hamstrings at the back).

On most machines you have to brace with your legs, so it is normal to feel some muscle work in the front of your thighs or your hips.

Your workouts must focus on strengthening the hamstrings muscles on back of thighs, quadriceps on front of thighs and glute muscles in butt.

The front of your thighs will be resting on the floor with your shins parallel to your upper body.

These 4 muscles are found on the front of the thigh.

You should feel a stretch on the front of your thigh as you stretch this part of your quadricep that crosses your knee and your hip joint.

Bend forward from your hips and rest your hands on your thigh or beside your front foot.

While the front of the body is being stretched in backbends (specifically the thighs, front groins, belly, chest and armpits), we should continue to focus our students» attention on the back torso.

Often on infomercials people talk about the outer thigh, but the outer thigh is formed by the quadriceps muscle which is located on the front of the thigh and wraps around to the outside of the thigh bone (femur).

Due to the more upright upper body posture, the Front Squat focusses strongly on the muscles on the anterior side of the thighs, the quads or quadriceps (the quadriceps consists of a group of four muscles, the vastus lateralis, the vastus medialis, the vastus intermedius and the rectus femoris).

(4) Splits hamstring stretch, this is an important stretch because it stretches the front hamstring and allows you to lean forward and place your head on to the front knee when doing the splits which forces the front thigh down and allows the back leg to straiten up.