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Quads and Hamstrings
Lesley Powell
Tutorial 4058
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Rosemary
Hi Leslie, really enjoying this series, the footwork is helping my heel injury! How often should I do the foot exercises if I feel no pain? Just to be clear for this quad/ ham tutorial, when you refer to hi beam, low beam of the sitting bones, do you mean the reach is longer and moving more toward the knees? So you are trying to stay in neutral spine and not curl the pelvis up which shortens the hip flexors in bridging?
5 years ago
for training of the foot - The usual reps of 8-10 for each exercise is good. Eventually you will want to practice it standing; both legs, single then repeat all in plie- bent knees. How your legs organized in standing is different from supine foot work.
Low beams. First I am trying to get people to neutral without doing if overly at the lumbar. When your sitz bones are grounded in supine for foot work and bridging, you are going to get better posterior leg action. By focusing of the travel of your sitz bones (low to high beams) in bridging is to get the posterior leg muscles engaging better. When a client leads with the tailbone, they are most likely going to kick out the posterior hip and leg muscles.
Hope that helps.
5 years ago
Mei. Thanks so much for letting me know. The Picture is correct. I flipped things around. Biceps Femoris attachment is on the lateral side. Semitendionosus and Semimenbranosus attaches on the medial side.
5 years ago
Thank you for this series, Lesley! Near the end of this video, you mention the femoral fold..specifically, you say, "when I see this close up, I know there exists an imbalance...". When you observe this, does that mean that the client is likely moving into a slight tuck, thereby releasing work in hams and quads? THANKS!!!
5 years ago
If clients are gripping too much in the femoral fold, I look to see what's working and not. In many ways I would activate the quads and hamstrings better. For instance if clients are tucking doing footwork, I would slow them down to get aware of the habit. This will start getting the leg muscles doing a better balance workout.
5 years ago
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