Sentences with phrase «raise your leg higher»

Here's where a lot of people start asking lots of questions: should you raise your legs higher than 90 degrees with your calves and hamstrings being parallel to the ground?

Pick up your knees as you jog with the intention of raising your legs high enough for your thighs to touch your hands.

Following this the athlete contracts the hip flexors again to raise the leg higher and further stretch the hamstrings.

To begin the glut kickback, slowly lift one leg back, keeping your knee bent, until the sole of your foot faces the ceiling and your thigh is parallel to the floor.You can target the upper glute muscle by raising your leg higher or the lower glute muscle by keeping your leg at less than parallel to the floor.

Gently, raise your legs higher and support your lower back with your hands.

Not exact matches

Both Jordan and Levine recommend interspersing cardio — running on a treadmill, riding a bike, or doing high - intensity interval training — with resistance training like planks, squats, or leg raises.

You'll find that you can stay on your toes longer during plank or you can sink your seat one inch deeper with a flatter back or you can raise your leg a little higher with your hips tucked under.

All of which raises the critical question is the move about positioning or an impressive set up for a leg higher.

Browning's immediate predecessors at Folsom — Dano Graves and Tanner Trosin — elevated the Bulldogs» offense to new heights with their arms and legs, and raised the status and expectations of Folsom football to the highest level.

If your bed is more than 24 inches high, you can raise the co-sleeper up to 30 inches with the leg extension kits.

The classic move is the bicycle, but you can also teach her the cancan: Raise her knees up and give each leg a high kick.

An ergonomic baby carrier supports the natural «C» shaped curve of the baby's spine, the spread squat position of the hips / legs where the knees are raised slightly higher than the bum (the «M» shape), and has the fabric spread from the hollow of one knee to the hollow of the other knee.

You can include side to side switches like a professional boxer alternating his lead legs, butt kicks, shuffles and high knee raises for the last 5 seconds.

Next, raise your right leg high in the air to move through a three - legged dog, then place it down on the mat, in between your planted hands.

As you press through your feet to come back to the starting position, raise one leg as high as you can to your side in a controlled kick.

Keeping core tight, slowly extend legs, allowing them to hover a few inches off floor (raise them a bit higher if that's too challenging), and lean back until your mid-back almost touches floor.

Keep in mind that after the dip, you'll want to raise your hip as high as you can before you extend your leg out to the side.

Start the exercise by putting both hands and kneed on the floor and raise the leg to the side as high as possible while keeping it bent all the time throughout the movement.

Then I raised my free leg higher and felt more weight on my head (okay, starting to panic).

ANYWHERE WORKOUT # 2: Alley MOVES: reverse plank, side plank dip with knee raise, broad jump, forward lunge with high kick, crunch ups, floor wipers, single - leg calf raises

Raise your back leg up as high you can.

Next time you perform hanging leg raises, try bringing your legs up higher to really feel your lower abs working overtime.

Keeping hips square and core engaged raise your right leg up, foot flexed as high as you can.

I provide a ton of great abs exercises in my book, but one of THE highest resistance exercises for the abs, is hanging leg raises (but NOT the way you see most people at the gym doing them).

Keep your legs straight as you raise one leg higher, then switch.

Off - Rower Exercises (7 minutes): Lower Body (30 seconds each): Forward lunges, side lunges, reverse lunges, air squats, and squats with calf raises Core Work (30 seconds each): Forearm plank with small alternating leg lifts, side plank with hip dips, and high plank with shoulder taps Upper Body (30 seconds): Pushups

Substitute Standing straight leg raises and Power Jacks for High Knee and Power Jacks.

Slowly raise your arms and legs up as high as possible, engaging the back muscles.

Raise your leg as high as possible.

An example of a higher resistance abs exercise would be a hanging leg raise with a proper pelvic curl - up (different than what you see most people doing in the gyms, where they only raise their knees up).

Don't raise your leg very high as it might damage the muscle.

They reported that the gastrocnemius muscle activity was higher during the Romanian deadlift compared to the prone leg curl but similar in the Romanian deadlift and both glute - ham raise and good morning exercise.

Lie down flat on ground with arms outstretched on ground behind head holding Ugi and legs flat and extended, slowly raise ball and straight legs up high into a V position, hold a couple seconds and then lower back down to start position.

Inhale, and slowly raise the left leg higher.

A common mistake people make when doing this exercise is raising the leg too high, so you want a maximum angle of about 45 degrees otherwise you not target the correct muscles (due to the physiology of the hip joint).

Squeeze your glutes and hamstrings to lift your upper body horizontal with your legs — do not overextend your back or raise your upper body too high.

* Raise your top leg as high as you can and hold it there for duration of exercise.

Adding a twist to leg raises, high vertical knees or the crunch engages the oblique muscles.

Raise your top leg up as high as you can without twisting or raising your hips.

Don't focus on how high your raised leg goes; instead, work toward directing equal energy into both legs.

You can hold the raised leg more or less parallel to the floor, or try to raise it slightly higher; ideally your torso should descend as the leg ascends.

Stand in middle of dip station and squat into a deep squat and then grasp handles of dip station and lift yourself off ground and bring knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower legs, release handles and squat low again and continue alternating doing knee raises and squats.

One example of a higher resistance abs exercise is hanging leg raises with a proper «pelvic curl up».

Standing behind dip station, squat and place hands on ground in front of you, jump legs back into plank position and do a push up, then jump legs back in and step or reach forward grasping handles of dip station and do a knee raise, straightening arms to lift yourself up off the floor, bending legs and bringing knees up towards chest as high as you can, then lower legs down to floor and step back behind dip station.

External oblique muscle activity is higher during a number of dynamic isolation exercises compared to the sit up and curl up including the kneeling roll out, horizontal side bend, jack knife, hanging leg raise.

Erector spinae muscle activity was highest during hanging leg raises (both straight - leg and bent - leg) and lowest in the body - saw and hand walk - out.

External oblique muscle activity was highest in the power wheel jack knife, knee - tucks and ab sling bent leg hanging raise.

Additionally, isolation exercises such as the glute - ham raise and prone leg curl appear to be effective (and in some cases) superior exercises for producing high levels of erector spinae muscle activity compared with some other isolation and compound exercises.

Konrad et al. (2001) compared a number of gymnastic exercises and found that the horizontal straight leg anchored side bend displayed the highest external oblique muscle activity, followed by the reverse curl up Escamilla et al. (2006) compared the power wheel roll out (power wheel in hands), jack knife and knee - tuck (power wheel attached to feet), the ab sling bent - leg hanging leg raise, the flat and decline reverse curl up, the anchored bent leg sit up, and bent leg curl up.

The erector spinae displayed highest muscle activity in the gute - ham raise, followed by the prone leg curl, Romanian deadlift and good morning.