]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/leg-strength Blog Articles Tagged with 'leg-strength' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/927173?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Fast Friday Fitness - a quick fun one to fulfill New Year's Resolutions for increased strength of body and core. Strengthen almost everything with this fun move that my students affectionately call peeing dog -Hold a straight pushup positio... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/927173?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:02:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/926585?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength After injury to the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee (ACL) it is common to be told that surgery is the only way to restore function. Is it?Ninety percent of ACL injuries in the U.S. are treated with surgical reconstruction. A study reported in ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/926585?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:34:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/926010?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Get a more functional hamstring stretch, and a built-in posturally helpful functional stretch to the front of the hip at the same time.When lying on your back to stretch your hamstrings by lifting one leg:Lie flat. Keep ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/926010?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:07:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/920911?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - how to make your own device to get a high tech workout that retrains important motor skills, balance, and lower limb proprioception. Proprioception means to know where and how your body is moving.Put a sturdy board on a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/920911?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:08:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/911337?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Readers Carol, Don, Teresa, AJ, and others asked about strength, and knee pain and placement when descending stairs.Physical therapist Teresa wrote: Hello Dr. Bookspan, The post on Better Exercise on the Stairs from July 2007 contains the following... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/911337?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:09:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/909457?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Is a leg press the same as a squat upside down? Both the squat and leg press bend and straighten the legs against resistance. But something special makes opposite forces on the joints.The post Exercising With A Friend - Partner Leg Press showed a fun... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/909457?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:26:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/907599?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Train children's balance and grip strength, use your legs, and have family fun.Have young children sit on your feet, and hang on (sensibly, parent's permission, and all that). Babies are born with a grasping reflex and a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/907599?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:02:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/899649?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - have fun while building balance, flexibility, coordination, concentration, and leg strength.Stand on one footBend the standing leg while raising the other leg behind you to lower your upper body toward the floorRetrieve ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/899649?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:44:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/893656?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - strengthen inner legs, thighs, arms, and core, while practicing neutral spine with a friend. Better than putting hands up on a bench or exercise ball My students Johanna (1) and Diana (2) demonstrate:Partner 1 lies face ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/893656?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:32:18 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/891494?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness for the intercalary year (Leap Year) - Leap to develop ankle and knee stability, leg power, and balance.Leap to a point in front of you. Then leap back again:Leap forward, landing on the other foot with soft shock absorpt... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/891494?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:32:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/885868?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - training and challenging abdominal muscles to hold neutral spine.Use this, not as an exercise to do, but to use to retrain neutral spine. Reader Mike, who did a A Whole Big Fix sent this photo to illustrate:Hold a plan... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/885868?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:33:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/881885?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - fun challenge for body stabilization, strength, speed, and balance with a friend.Stand facing a partnerStand on one foot, pressing the other against your partner's raised foot.Push, pull, surprise your partner with unexp... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/881885?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:44:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/877763?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - build balance, leg and hip strength, and flexibility as a lifestyle.Lightly sit down on the floor and get up again without your hands.Being able to rise from the floor is natural lifestyle movement, done in many places ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/877763?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:55:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/874306?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - quickly increase functional stabilization of the knee, leg, and ankle while increasing overall strength and balance.Anyone can lift weights, but can you do it balancing on a basketball? Get started by standing on one foo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/874306?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:14:16 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/873345?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness with a new debut - web movies!Fitness Fixer reader David D of Belgium has been making us many helpful mpegs. This one shows how to get several important physical skills and daily built-in fitness as a lifestyle by simply ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/873345?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:15:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/870191?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength A special story came in. I had been corresponding with someone who wrote me to ask how to stop her mother's knee pain, and later with questions to help her father. I was charmed by this good daughter who wanted to help her parents. She faithfully tau... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/870191?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:49:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/863802?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Quickly strengthen lower back and backside muscles, improve balance, stretch your legs, and learn straighter positioning:Stand on one foot.Lift the other leg in back. Bend only at the hip until your entire body is parall... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/863802?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:31:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/860124?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Here is Friday Fast Fitness - quick strengthener for arms, shoulders, body, legs, hands, feet. Healthier than bending over for rows (hard on discs) and more functional strengthening than lying on a bench:Hold a tucked pushup position - tuck shown in... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/860124?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/857305?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Many people know they need to bend right but don't because it hurts their knees.Bending right will not hurt knees. It will help fix one of the things that has been injuring them - bad bending habits which pressure and grind the joint.Good bending w... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/857305?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:47:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/855812?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength To get a better lunge stretch and stop pressure on the medial knee (the side facing the other leg), don't turn your back leg outward (left photo). Turn your back foot parallel, and face forward (right photo)The previous post Hip Stretch While You Str... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/855812?rsstype=tag&tag=leg-strength Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:39:00 -0400