Sentences with phrase «sternum up»

By gently lifting your sternum up, you automatically drop your shoulders back, elongate your torso and allow yourself to breathe better!

With your palms (or fingertips) push down and back against the floor, and lift the top of your sternum up (away from the floor) and forward.

Think about pushing your lower back in and extending the sternum up.

(Lift the chest and sternum up while lengthening the back of the neck, by pulling the chin toward the back of the neck.

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Boosters raise the child up in the vehicle seat to allow the seatbelt to pass correctly across their sternum and across their lower hips.

Beginning at her sternum, trace a heart shape bringing both hands up to her shoulders, then down and back together.

In the early days, surgeons would open up the entire sternum, put the person on a heart — lung machine, open up the aorta, and stitch in a new valve.

Visualize a strong, clear green light filling up your heart center — located in the center of your sternum and below your shoulder blades.

Pull up and simultaneously lean back so your sternum touches the bar and not your chin.

As you peel yourself away from the floor, your sternum should be coming up as well.

Grip the bar with an overhand grip slightly wider than shoulder - width apart, pull yourself up then move your body toward one hand, while keeping your sternum at the bar.

As you inhale lift up your chest and pull the sternum forward.

Begin with slow strokes, moving up from your right hipbone toward your sternum, and down from your ribs towards your left hip.

Gradually you'll notice that as you inhale, the breath moves down, and the front body — from the pubic bone up to the top of your sternum — subtly expands, moving your spine in the direction of a backbend.

Let the heads of your thigh bones sink into the pull of gravity and push the top of your sternum forward and up.

Coil the bottom of your back ribs in and up — but, as in Bhujangasana, protect your lower back by lifting from your upper sternum rather than pushing forward at your navel.

But if possible, exhale, release your grip, and pull yourself up to kneeling with a strong lift of the sternum.

Enhance the arch of your thoracic spine by expanding your chest, lifting your sternum, and pulling the side ribs forward and up.

UCS may also impair athletic performance, since bad posture can set the stage for poor exercise technique (e.g., people with UCS often have trouble getting their chest up in the bench - press) and depression of the sternum can make it more difficult to breathe.

To lift your chest, push the top of your sternum (at the manubrium) straight up toward the ceiling.

As you come up, lead with your sternum, not your head or chin.

For the time being keep your head up, chin near the sternum, and your hands on the pelvis.

Lift through the sides of the rib cage, the armpits, and the sternum as you look up toward the ceiling.

To protect your low back, use pull your core in and up and try to avoid pushing the ribs forward as you bring you lift through your sternum.

Extend the side torso up, lift the sternum without sticking out the ribs, and drop the shoulders.

Then imagine there's a string attached to your sternum (the heart space) lifting it up to the ceiling.

In chest exercises, when you pack your shoulders, it raises your sternum higher up as well as makes your shoulders narrower to increase the leverage.

Step 3: Once your sternum is 3 - 4 inches from the ground, pause briefly before raising your body back up to the starting position.

You can do half - reps (focus — although on the back — includes more emphasis on the biceps), complete pull - ups (with elbows to full extension), or sternum pull - ups (where you keep going up until your sternum touches the bar).

The rectus abdominus muscle has two sets of muscle fibers that run up and down from the sternum, or chest plate, down to the pubic bone.