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OK, here we're going to work on the quads, the front of the legs, which are the quads
right here. This is called the leg extensions. Basically, you're sitting here. You want to
make sure you're back is against the pad. So like your back is right here against the
back pad here. You're knees sticking out about this much, outside of what the pad is here.
You start from here. What a lot of people do here -- I see very common -- people bring
them up, they're bringing them up too high. What happens, you hyper-extend your knee.
You don't want to do that. Actually, I feel it right now as I do this. You bring it down,
all the way down. Don't let it rest though, keep it in motion. You bring it up to here.
This is fine, because you see them working already. So, you go like this, you hyper-extend
your knees: very bad. You don't want to do that. And make sure you keep breathing. Very nice, one nice rhythm, up and down. Up,
and down. Up. You can hold it for half a second here, but again, don't hyper-extend it. Keep
it to here. Your knees are slightly bent. They're not all the way up. And then breathe.
Now you're going to feel this. See how it works right here, the front, and the whole
quads.
Very simple. Just up and down very slow. Again, the slower you go, the more muscles that are
going to work and the less risk for an injury.