Sentences with phrase «weaker hamstrings and glutes»

Women tend to be quadriceps dominant and often have weaker hamstrings and glutes.

Not exact matches

If my left psoas is tight and restricting my mobility by right deep sixes, glutes, lowback, and hamstring will be weak and uncontracted.

Powerful glutes also help correct the muscle imbalances that many people have from sitting too much — tight hip flexors, weak glutes, and hamstrings.

If your hamstrings are 50 - 80 % weaker than your quadriceps and you go right for the «glutes,» you may end up injured instead of stronger.

Road distance runners tend to be weak in the hamstrings but strong in the glutes and quads, though the fastest don't fit this so neatly.

People with office or sedentary jobs often have weak glutes and hamstrings, and the power clean is an excellent developer of these muscles.

Stretch abs and hamstrings your glutes are likely to be tight but weak so you should stretch and strengthen these.

Aside from helping to prevent injuries, there's another reason: thanks to the good old 9 - 5 spent sitting on our tush, most people have weak glutes, tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings, which means if they dive straight into the exercises they don't target their glutes, but rather other muscles like the thighs (quadriceps in the front, adductors on the inside and hamstrings at the back).

For example too tight chest and not strong enough upper back lead to crunched shoulders, tight lower back and hamstrings with weak glutes pull hips forward, on top of these issues there's tight neck sticking forward giving the «perfect» S shaped posture...

But combine weak glutes with tight hip flexors and tight hamstrings from sitting down most of the day, and when it comes time to drop it like a squat: it's more like a glute fizzle than the bonfire you'd hoped for.

It is important to keep in mind that if you sit for a majority of the day, you may have inactive and weak glutes, along with tight hamstrings and hip flexors.

I have a similar problem and also have weak glutes and tight hamstrings.

If you're struggling hitting depth there could be many causes — you could have poor ankle mobility, tight hip flexors and / or hamstrings, weak glutes, or poor pelvic alignment (among many other things).