Sentences with phrase «use straight leg»

Physical Therapists often use straight leg raises to help people strengthen their knees after certain knee injuries.

Physical Therapists often use straight leg raises to help people recover from knee injuries, so this exercise is great for both men and women.

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So, when babies are swaddled, if their legs are really straight, like how we used to see in more historical like papoose in the board swaddling in that kind of situation.

Existing exoskeletons use motors to move the wearer's legs — but only in a straight line.

Do it right: During this exercise, keep your leg straight and glute contracted as you want to focus on using your glute to lift your leg.

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.

-- Keep the legs straight and use them for balance only.

With your hands behind your head, hinge at your hips and get up off the floor and stand up straight without using your hands, just your legs.

You'll use your legs to help propel the bar, making sure it travels straight up, and not toward or away from your head.

Using your core, and keeping your chin and chest lifted, draw your legs up straight and bring your arms in front of you.

Stand up all the way by powerfully exploding up out of the slight squat position that you caught the barbell in and simultaneously press the barbell straight up overhead to lockout using the momentum generated by your legs.

The main purpose of the iso holds is to help you get used in holding the nonworking leg straight in the air.

Focus on lifting this leg from your butt (leg must stay straight or you are not using your butt).

Use your lower abdominals to lift your legs straight up overhead, lifting your hips up high.

Stand with your torso straight and your legs spaced using a shoulder width or narrower stance.

Using your glutes, come up to standing on your right leg and lift your left leg straight out to the side (e).

Use your hands to bring your knees together, then release your legs straight onto the floor.

(You may use a strap if you can not keep your legs straight.)

Another way to do the stretch is to lay on your back with one leg straight out on the floor and the other flexed 90 degrees at the hip, knee straight using a towel around the foot or ankle.

If you find yourself having to swing or use jerky motions then perform this exercise with your knees bent 90 degrees rather than with straight legs.

The quads and hip flexors help to pull the hip forwards, and straight leg raises are a great quad and hip flexor exercise that are sometimes used by physical therapists to strengthen the knee and hip.

Press hands and arms into the ground as you use the strength of your abs to lift legs straight up towards the ceiling.

Your entire body should be in a straight, extended position with feet off the floor so that your legs are resting on the roller and you're using your forearms to support your weight.

My knee Cap was burning, at night got numb... it went away but accasionally, i have numbness and tingling radiating into lower legs... i would describe it more as discomfort... seems like neurological... knees get redish after activity, like under my skin... I know that any exersise with flexing cause pain on the next day... now i even seat with my legs straight... I got foam roller... i want to ask your opinion about using it?

To increase the intensity try hanging leg raises by using the top handles (if the chair has them otherwise you can use a pull up / chin up bar or even a sturdy tree branch) and do either the knee or straight leg raises.

If you can't straighten both legs or if your right buttock lifts off the floor, use a belt around the right foot, walking your right hand up the belt until your arm is straight.

Using your abs, bring both your arms and your legs toward each other, effectively forming a «V.» Be sure to keep your legs and arms straight, and to engage your abs throught the movement.

Use your core and quads to ump straight up, switching your legs in mid-air.

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.

From Cobra Pose, roll back over onto your back Lie flat and stretch your body straight Lift your torso, using your abdomen, toward your knees while lifting your legs (straightened) toward your torso.

I would just go straight from one - legged calf raises (5 reps on each leg using no weight) then right into Abdominal Sit - ups (5 reps on that exercise, too) then back to calves.

Use a rep range of 6 — 10 reps for your straight leg calf raises and 8 — 12 reps for your bent leg (seated) calf raises if you do them (though these are not essential).

One Leg Bridge — Lie on mat with knees bent, lift one leg straight up towards ceiling and using the other leg lift hips up to a bridge position and then come back down.

To increase the intensity try hanging leg raises by using the top handles (if the chair has them otherwise hang from the pull up bar) and doing either the knee or straight leg raises.

A great way of working the obliques using the same piece of equipment can be achieved by raising your knees / straight legs to the side.

Extend your right leg and left arm straight out and hold this pose as long as you can using your core to keep the integrity of your posture.

I like to use the heel as a depth gauge - keep a straight leg and when the heel touches the floor, you know it is time to drive back up.

And just to clarify, by straight back I mean not lifting with your back, but gaining stability althrough your body almost like squatting and using your legs.

If you can't reach the floor with straight legs and a long spine, use blocks.

With kettlebell hanging between your legs, use your arms as a pendulum, and swing the bell to chest - to - eye level by thrusting with your hips while keeping your core tight as you stand up straight.

So if you keep your legs fairly straight the exercise targets the gastrocnemius and uses the soleus as an assisting muscle.

You can either do bent knees or straight leg deadlifts using the trap bars.

In deadlifts, hip extension moment is increased with heavier loads, with a conventional rather than a sumo stance or a hex - bar, and by using a straight - leg technique.

Results When they did the deadlift with the trap bar the participants had to work the upper leg muscles - the vastus lateralis to be precise - harder than they did when they used the straight barbell.

FIRST incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 incline press using thick bar 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 flat bench dumbbell flye 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell bench press 1 x 8 - 10 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - arm pulldown 1 x 15 - 20 front pulldown or chin 1 x 8 - 10 one dumbbell pullover drop set of 3 x 8 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 pushdown with rope handle 1 x 15 - 20 close - grip bench press 1 x 8 - 10 seated overhead (one - arm) extension drop set 3 x 8 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 ab - bench crunch 1 x 15 - 20 incline or hanging kneeups 1 x 8 - 10 SECOND [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 standing forward - lean lateral raise 1 x 15 - 20 [2] dumbbell upright row 1 x 8 - 10 dumbbell (two - arm) press drop set 3 x 8 incline one - arm dumbbell lateral 1 x 8 bent - over dumbbell lateral drop set 3 x 8 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 seated bent - arm bent - over dumbbell lateral 1 x 15 - 20 dumbbell (two - arm) row on high bench 1 x 8 - 10 one - arm dumbbell row 1 x 8 - 10 barbell shrug [wrist straps or hooks are fine] 1 x 15 - 20 standing dumbbell curl w arm - blaster 1 x 8 - 10 spider curl with E-Z curl bar 1 x 15 - 20 cable curl with straight bar 1 x 8 - 10 incline (two - arm) curl drop set 3 x 8 incline (two - arm) hammer curl drop set 3 x 8 rotator cuff with ShoulderHorn and dumbbells 1 x 8 - 10 hang from chinning bar'til failure THIRD front squat 1 x 6 - 8 leg extension 1 x 15 - 20 front squat 1 x 6 - 8 sissy squat 1 x 8 - 10 supine leg curl 1 x 15 - 20 leg press on angled leg press 1 x 8 - 10 stiff - legged deadlift 1 x 8 - 10 immediately followed by back extension 1 x 30 - 50 (no weight) 5 minute rest leg press calf raise 1 x 20 leg press calf raise 1 x 15 standing calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 seated calf raise 1 x 12 - 15 D.A.R.D raise 1 x 8 - 10 4 - way neck work with towel — 1 15 - second rep for each of the 4 ways TIPS for using this program in your weight lifting routines:

The best exercise was this: Use a foam roller or roll up a towel and place this under the injured knee while sitting on the floor with legs extended straight in front of you.

Frost et al. (2012) investigated forward, backward and lateral band walking using both a straight - leg and bent - leg approach.

Frost et al. (2012) investigated forward, backward and lateral sled dragging and band walking using both a straight - leg and bent - leg approach.

It's similar to a regular crunch, but your legs are straight up, forcing you to use your abs to do all the work and adding intensity to the exercise.

For an at - home version, use specialty denim scissors to update the hem of boot - cut and straight - leg jeans you haven't worn recently.