When you sit down
the stabilizer muscles of the legs do not work as hard.
Not exact matches
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.
The quads are a major
stabilizer of the knee and straight
leg raises can be used to re-train the quad
muscles after a knee injury.
Because they train the «calf raise» movement incorrect and find yourself targeting the
stabilizers of the lower
leg (the soleus
muscle and medial skeletal
muscle group) rather than the gastrocs, that assuredly the 2
muscles we wish to be aesthetically awful.
What
muscles it works: «You use a lot
of stabilizer muscles in the hips, knees and ankles that you don't normally use, as well as larger
muscles like the butt,
legs and core,» says Braganza.
The One
Legged Squat works so well because it requires you to balance, which engages your
stabilizer muscles and the exercise places all
of your weight on one
leg.