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A Roman chair helps to stabilize the legs up until the hip joints while performing low back extension. The torso from above the hip joints is flexed forwards and down towards the floor. The exercise is completed by contracting the back (erector spinae muscles) and raising the torso so the body is in a straight line from head to heels. The ...
Cable leg press machine. The leg press is a compound weight training exercise in which the individual pushes a weight or resistance away from them using their legs. The term leg press machine refers to the apparatus used to perform this exercise. [1] The leg press can be used to evaluate an athlete's overall lower body strength (from the ...
The push-up (press-up in British English) is a common calisthenics exercise beginning from the prone position. By raising and lowering the body using the arms, push-ups exercise the pectoral muscles, triceps , and anterior deltoids , with ancillary benefits to the rest of the deltoids, serratus anterior , coracobrachialis and the midsection as ...
Figure 2: The triceps muscle, showing the lateral head (yellow), the long head (red) and the medial head (green). Straight bar push-down is a variation that involves connecting a straight bar attachment to a cable machine. In executing this variation, the bar is gripped with the knuckles facing up and the elbows are held close to the body.
The push press is used to help develop shoulder strength. It can be used to push past a sticking point or develop power for the Clean and Jerk (though 'pressing' is illegal in competition). The ability to drive from the legs and through the torso to the arms is important for sports (this is also found in the bench press).
The leg extension is a good exercise for isolating muscular contraction in the quadriceps, [14] but as with all isolation exercises, should be included in a holistic resistance training program working all muscles, especially antagonistic muscle pairs (such as the quadriceps, hamstrings, and gluteal muscles), to avoid muscular imbalances, which ...
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Bridging exercises are done with a flexed knee to lessen the stretch on the hamstring (a knee flexor) and focus the hip extension work on the gluteus maximus. In that same respect, the reduced knee flexion makes plantar flexion work comparable to a seated calf raise, due to the lessened stretch on the gastrocnemius (like the hamstring, also a knee flexor).