Sentences with phrase «raise your legs while»

Slowly raise your legs while flexing the abs.

As you do the pose, notice if your attention goes to your raised leg while the leg on the floor is out of sight and out of mind.

Not exact matches

Let your legs hang, and slowly raise your legs towards your chest contracting your hip flexors and abs, while keeping your back pressed against the pad.

The former Dropbox executive raised $ 140 million for her first fund and says that while bigger funds have a clear advantage when it comes to leading the largest deals, her dual focus — A.I. and diversity — gives her a leg up.

I need to play around with the straps and see if maybe I can tighten some / loosen some to get her more comfortable, also maybe raising the leg rest so gravity isn't pulling her down while her legs are hanging.

Raise your legs using a coffee table or stool so as to avoid straining your back while leaning toward the baby.

And it's interesting to note that she was able to raise this money while she was still on the mend from her fall earlier this year in New York City that resulted in a broken leg.

If, on the other hand, you begin twisting from the ground up, clasping your legs together at the apex of your leap while raising your arms above your head, you will do a rapid 180 - degree turn, which is the object of the exercise.

Kohei Okamoto at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and his team spotted the molluscs raising their front arms while they bent their other legs, as if they had joints.

That's true for male peacock spiders, which raise colorful flaps on their behinds and wave them while lifting their third legs in an adorable dance aimed at luring a mate.

For an easier version of this, perform leg raises without the candlestick lift or while bending your knees on the way down.

Keeping your hips and right leg glued to the floor, use the towel to raise your left leg toward your chest while keeping it straight.

Tricep push - ups hit the tough - to - tone backs of your arms, while the leg raises strengthen your lower abs.

While lunges, squats and leg raises aren't to be skipped, adding the clam to our lower - body workouts will bring the heat to your lower half.

Next, extend your right arm to the sky while simultaneously raising your right leg up to hip - level (c).

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.

While some people enjoy the full range of motion allowed when doing standing calf raises with the assistance of dumbbells for added weight, many fitness centers provide state of the art leg press machines.

Begin raising the bar and start exhaling by imagining that you push the floor with the middle of the foot, while you straighten your legs again and get back to the starting position.

Press into the right hand while you raise the legs straight off the floor, bringing the torso toward the legs.

Bend at the waist while simultaneously raising your legs and arms to meet in a jackknife position.

As your balance skills improve and with the guidance of a trained Pilates instructor, you'll move to the more advanced exercises while moving on the Reformer, like star (essentially a side plank, on the Reformer with one leg raised) and balance control front (lie flat on your back and raise one leg, while bringing the other close to your head).

Press into your left foot to come to standing one - legged on the bench while quickly raising right knee to chest level.

At the same time, raise one leg up while lowering the other down.

Because of this, people make the common mistakes while performing leg press calf raises workout.

Sling traps are useful to keep the correct form while you do leg lifts or knee raises protecting you from moving forward and backward.

While in the air, raise both your arms above your head and slightly part your legs.

4) To increase the difficulty, keep the legs straight while lifting and raise to a minimum of 90 degrees.

Then raise top leg while maintaining the lengthened position of the trunk.

While sitting, simply raise and straighten your leg out at a 90 - degree angle and hold the position for 10 seconds.

Drop your arm towards the rooted leg, while raising the other.

Raise your legs up while holding the dumbbell securely until your legs are perpendicular to the floor.

Abs exercises 3 circuits with all exercises done using a medicine ball and for 10 reps. sit up with feet flat on floor, Roman chair sit up, v sit ups, leg raises with medicine ball held by feet, boxing abs tensions (Tense stomach while partner hits abs with medicine ball)

Or while on your back, place your hands under your buttocks and raise and lower your legs.

Leg Lifts or Leg Raises — If you have a pull up bar available, hang from the bar and lift your knees to your chest or while keeping your legs straight, lift them until they are perpendicular to the floor.

You can perform leg raises while hanging from a pull up bar as well.

The Bosu Home Balance Trainer allows you to use familiar exercises (leg raises, lunges, abdominal crunches, push - ups and stretches) while focusing on balance by performing the exercises on an ever - changing, soft surface.

I've got a lower abdominal exercise that works like a vacuum to draw your abdominal wall up and in WHILE you're doing something that LOOKS like a leg raise (but isn't a leg raise).

While, most of the floor abs exercises only train one particular muscle, leg raises on pull up bar work all your muscles once.

Box step - up with overhead press: With dumbells in a shoulder press position and lift them up while the foot is anchored in the box, raise the other leg while lifting the weights up in a continuos move once you master the move.

Sit on the floor with your right leg straight and your left leg bent (your legs form a number four) With your back straight, raise arms then lower while reaching for your toes.

Lie on ground with legs straight and wide apart and sit up while raising one hand up towards the ceiling and then reach over with that hand and touch your toes of the opposite side foot, or as close as you can reach towards them.

They report that medial and lateral gastrocnemius muscle activity was superior when performing the heel raise with a straight leg, while the soleus displayed a small (4 %) but significant increase in muscle activity when performing the heel raise with 45 degrees of knee flexion.

Hip flexions, lateral leg raises, and repetitions of other exercises were done while standing upright behind the chair, holding the back of the chair for stability.

With legs resting one on top of the other, raise the top leg up into the air while keeping it in line with the rest of your body.

Continue lifting the supporting leg on the ground up to bridge position while keeping the other leg and foot raised up towards ceiling.

Here instead of raising your upper leg upwards you move it forwards while keeping it straight throughout the movement.

(Stand on bottom stair, lunge back with left leg while lifting arms to side shoulder height; return weight to foot on stair, raising left leg behind you while lowering weights to side.)

For example, laying on the floor and holding your extended leg up with your hand, while trying to push the straight leg down, or laying on the floor and pushing your raised straight legs against the wall.

Another great bodyweight exercise for legs is the lunge, while calves benefits from the standing calf raise and you can work out your glutes using the glute kickback as a useful bodyweight exercise.

While you lower your leg and hand, skip with your left leg and raise it to touch your extended right hand.