Floor Hamstring Curls With Towel

When bending your knees your hamstrings will engage to roll the ball toward your body.

Floor hamstring curls with towel.

Lying swiss ball hamstring curls start lying on your back with the legs out straight resting your feet on the top of a swiss ball about six inches apart. Sit on mat or floor with knees bent. Notice how she keeps her hips raised throughout the entire exercis. Keep your back.

Supplement video for mwr focus magazine. As with the slider leg curl it works your hamstrings glutes and core. It took me a long time to progress to them and even when i could do regular sliding leg curls with 135 pounds on my hips i still couldn t even do one rep of these bad boys. Performing towel hamstring curl.

Use the right leg to slide the foot out straight then pull it back in. Lie back and raise leg straight above maintaining grip on towel with both hands. The hamstring curl with a ball uses a stability ball to lift your hips and legs off the floor. This movement is a lot like the slider leg curls we looked at above.

I ve done tons of hard hamstring exercises but single leg body curls may very well be the toughest of the lot even when just using bodyweight. Position towel under middle of foot with hands grasping towel on both ends. Lie on the floor. This exercise is also called the slick floor bridge curl and bodyweight hamstring curl since your bodyweight serves as the resistance for this movement.

The only difference is that you use a towel on a low friction floor. Repeat 15 20 repetitions then switch sides. For hamstring towel slides perform as above swapping out the slider for a towel. To do this.

Lift the hips up into bridge. From this position lift one or both feet off the floor by bending your knees. Switching up the hamstring curls above place a towel under only your right foot and keep your left foot flat on the floor in a bridge position. When doing this you should be keeping your knees on the floor.