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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in
preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
Cycling / spinning is a great exercise for skiing since flexion and
extension of the legs are required. Skiing is not just about flexion or extension of the legs it is about both - similar to cycling. Conditioning wise it is also about balance, lateral leg motion, rotary leg motion and a few others. I find rollerblading in a manner that mimics skiing to help as much as cycling. As far as weight training goes you don't mention the exercises you are doing. Most routines will include squats and leg presses as well as leg extensions, leg curls and calf raises. I add to those exercises lunges, straight leg dead lifts, shin flexion, leg abduction, leg adduction and balance drills to get more skiing specific. Shin flexion is a bit difficult to understand. I use a leg press machine or a donkey calf raise machine. I put my heels instead of my toes on the platform then alternately flex and extend the muscles in my shin. This provides balance to calf muscle development in the same way hamstring development balances quadricep development. Balance drills can be as simple as standing on one leg while doing dumbell exercises to stability ball exercises, drills using cones or other things. Obviously all of the exercises mentioned above are not done in one workout. I add one or two to each workout and get reasonable results. Aar "DJ Kim" wrote in message om... Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
(DJ Kim) wrote in news:2daf7872.0308142059.57c54423
@posting.google.com: Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? Playing volleyball seems to help me. -- Chester Bullock, Tenxible Solutions - Tangible, Flexible Website Hosting, Design and Marketing http://www.tenxible.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you really own your domain name? Find out with our free domain name research report. http://www.tenxible.com |
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Chester Bullock, Lying Hypocrite
Chester Bullock was stupid enough to use his sig promoting his business,l
tenxible.com I take this from his incompetent page Backed by a strong code of ethics, WHAT CODE OF ETHICS? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The same code of ethics that has Chester Bullock hanging out with a bunch of criminal terrorists on rsa? Clue time. If Chester Bullock had the ethics God gave a rock, he would have condemned the death threats, the gross and vile lies, the stalking, the criminal acts of his friends. Instead, he attacked the victims and skied with the criminals. |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
In message , DJ Kim
writes Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. The one in the back of your thigh, that flexes the knee? It's apparently called biceps (two-headed) or biceps femoris to distinguish it from its better-known namesake in your arm. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? Running gives it a good workout, especially if you change pace and direction frequently (shuttle runs etc). So does any sport where you dodge about, even tennis or badminton. Cross-country running is better than flat ground or a machine. Cyclists should also take some upright exercise to avoid spinal mobility problems: I do regular sessions standing in the pub raising my wrist, but that wasn't enough. -- Sue ] |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexesthe legs?
DJ Kim wrote:
Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? I'm not at all a fan of exercise machines (I'd rather be out doing *something* than spinning discs and stretching bands on a machine in a gym), but the Skiers Edge exercise machine seems to get at the skiing muscles. A friend of mine bought one to rehab his broken tibia for the ski season, and I had the chance to get in a couple of hours before the start of the season. I was definitely less sore and better prepared for the first few days of the season than usual. See http://www.skiersedge.com/ . They're not cheap. (If you want cheap, just get a shoebox and practice jumping back and forth across it sideways with your legs together.) One advantage of the Skier's Edge is that it doesn't depend on electricity, so you can use it during a power failure. Unlike usenet... -- //-Walt // // "Fair and Balanced" |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexesthe legs?
Walt wrote:
DJ Kim wrote: Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? I'm not at all a fan of exercise machines (I'd rather be out doing *something* than spinning discs and stretching bands on a machine in a gym), but the Skiers Edge exercise machine seems to get at the skiing muscles. Here's something I posted a couple of years back - I still love this machine for ski fitness: The exercise that I think is best for it is on what I think is called the Rotary Hip machine at my gym. You stand on a variable height platform facing a large wheel. There's an arm on this with a padded handle and you can adjust the position of the arm out of the vertical. I set it at the 4 o'clock position and then do 4 exercises on it: 1. Facing the wheel with the handle outside and just above the left knee, lift the leg straight out to the side as high as you can go, slowly and in control (that applies to all these moves). Keep the supporting knee slightly flexed, not locked out (again for all these moves) and only use the handrails to steady yourself, don't pull on them or use them to balance, that way you work the supporting knee's muscles as well as the big muscle you're exercising. Repeat 12-15 times, adjust weight so this is about the most you can do comfortably, not too heavy so you have to jerk the moves, do them slowly and in control both on the way up and back down again. Again for all moves, adjust the height of the platform, and stand so that an imaginary line extending from the wheel's axle passes thru the rotation point of the hip. Adjust the handle for your height. 2. Handle inside and above right knee, cross right leg in front of left and squeeze it as high as you can. Gentlemen adjust your jockeys BEFORE attempting this. Again 12-15 reps. 3. Face to right, handle behind and above left knee, push the leg out straight and behind. This exercises the butt, not the hamstring. 12-15 reps. 4. Face to the left with the handle just above the right knee. 12-15 slow knee lifts. Move the handle to the 8-oclock position and repeat all the above in the reverse order on the opposite leg so that you always switch to the other leg after each exercise. Hope this helps Cheers Roger |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
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Amongst other things I use a balance board . They are cheap and give you leg strength but more importantly they give you balance and coordination . If you modify the way you use it you will find many different ways to work out on it . I have no vested interest in them other than thinking they are great and fun to use . I actually got turned onto it from this newsgroup asking a similar question . Ron "Walt" wrote in message ... DJ Kim wrote: Although I do spinning, weight lifting, cycling during off-season in preparation of the upcoming ski season, I noticed that those exercises do not actually help the muscle that is extensively used in skiing - the one that flexes the legs. I don't know the name. Spinning, weight lifing, and cycling all help tone the leg muscles that extend the legs not flex the legs. Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs? I'm not at all a fan of exercise machines (I'd rather be out doing *something* than spinning discs and stretching bands on a machine in a gym), but the Skiers Edge exercise machine seems to get at the skiing muscles. A friend of mine bought one to rehab his broken tibia for the ski season, and I had the chance to get in a couple of hours before the start of the season. I was definitely less sore and better prepared for the first few days of the season than usual. See http://www.skiersedge.com/ . They're not cheap. (If you want cheap, just get a shoebox and practice jumping back and forth across it sideways with your legs together.) One advantage of the Skier's Edge is that it doesn't depend on electricity, so you can use it during a power failure. Unlike usenet... -- //-Walt // // "Fair and Balanced" |
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Which weight training, or exercise, helps the muscles that flexes the legs?
"Ron N.Y" wrote:
Amongst other things I use a balance board . They are cheap and give you leg strength but more importantly they give you balance and coordination . If you modify the way you use it you will find many different ways to work out on it. I agree with this post. JP ******************* Do squats on 'em. |
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